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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: greggolf on January 11, 2009, 09:06:56 PM

Title: Robotic Hand
Post by: greggolf on January 11, 2009, 09:06:56 PM

Hello,
Im currently experimenting with arduino and im trying to work on this project for my grad project...
I want to make a robotic hand with 3 fingers and thumb.
The kicker is that i want to control it with a glove, using my 3 fingers and thumb,
anyone have any ideas?
what can i use to construct it, and is arduino enough

greg

Title: Re: Robotic Hand
Post by: Razor Concepts on January 11, 2009, 09:13:06 PM

Arduino should be enough. You could make a frame to fit over your hand, and have potentiometers on the pivot points. The arduino can read the potentiometer values and adjust the servos on the fingers accordingly. Or a more expensive but cooler way would be to have accelerometers on your fingertips  :D

Title: Re: Robotic Hand
Post by: SmAsH on January 11, 2009, 09:17:59 PM

do you have as budget limit?

Title: Re: Robotic Hand
Post by: airman00 on January 11, 2009, 09:19:55 PM

as Smash said - we really need to know budget

You could also look into flex sensors that change resistance based on how much the sensor is flexed.

Title: Re: Robotic Hand
Post by: Admin on January 14, 2009, 11:10:16 AM

http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1335.msg38514#msg38514