Prosthetic Hand V1 - TSA Project

This is an animatronic hand that I built for a State competition, it took second place being beat by an animatronic penguin.

Download the code here, go and download the animatronic hand .zip file.

http://code.google.com/p/stepperserialcontrol/downloads/list

The hand was built by following this tutorial

http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/robothand/index.html

The small portion of the code responsible for controlling the servo controller was taken from a sample program written by Colin Karpfinger.

http://colinkarpfinger.com

The music used in the video (Ready Steady Go!) was under 10% of the actual published song making this fair use.

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[sk8rj10]

Sweet Project man, it gives me some great ideas on what I'd like to do for a project with our hackerspace (United Greenworks). Thanks for sharing it with your fellow tubers, I really liked the power glove control!

[Halo2maniaccc]

Thanks, and yea the power glove control was what made everyone go wowwww....

[Hanawasaki]

Wow amazing! I am looking at kinetic art and sculpture for my art involving/interacting with the human form, I am however not so good with technology, these are pretty inspiring though!

[VCSandARM]

psh no penguin can beat that! the judges were too amazed thats all

[petermpeters]

thanks for helping me learn.

[njkl44]

@Halo2maniaccc thank you and ya im pretty much a noob right now about this lol but ya that site is great for tutorials and everything thank you for your help i will keep you posteed

[Halo2maniaccc]

Unfortunately I didn't make the program for the arduino, you will have to write the code based on exactly what you need to do from my C# computer program. If you want basic servo control its not hard follow the tutorials and you will be on your way. Once you have a design you can send me a pm with more direct questions but right now (not trying to be mean) your questions are vague. I'm not going to write the code for you but I can help you through it when you have specific questions about it.

[njkl44]

@Halo2maniaccc ya i have been look ing at adruino stuff for a couuple hours now and its prett cool but do you have that program u made go to n arduino or what then after that what heppens

[Halo2maniaccc]

Arduino has a very large website that has loads of tutorials on it anything from programming syntax w/ examples, hardware interfaces, software libraries, and complete tutorials. Google arduino servo or go on youtube and look that up there are even video tutorials!

It is a great place to start because there is lots of documentation on it, you must first learn to walk before you can sprint lol. I haven't even learned the super cool stuff yet I'm still a beginner but I'm getting better every day..

[njkl44]

@Halo2maniaccc alright ill look at that and i just bough an arduino tonight so im hoping to do some cool stuff with that now what did u use to controll the servos cause i no u used the 8 servo connect thingy but like walk me through the output of the computer to the servos