This week we had a chat with Prof. Andy Russell about the robot hand we wished to build. We wanted to know where we should start and how we could go about making our robot hand.
His advice was very helpful! We learnt that there are 32 degress of motion in a hand, and that we had absolutely no idea what those were. We decided that we only needed a grasping motion, but he gave us a good idea with moving the fingers horizontally away from each other. The Leap Motion can give us the angle between the fingers, and thus we may be able to control each of those fingers in a new way.
He showed us different ways we could orient the joints and a couple of ways that joints could be constructed. This was helpful - but since we went ahead with the 3D printing, it ultimately didn't matter. It did help us with conceptualizing how the joints moved, though, and we thank him for that.
Prof. Russell also gave us a couple of suggestions on books we could read (including his own!) that could help us with the construction of the robot hand. Ultimately, these were mainly irrelevant for our purposes as we only needed a hand that could grasp, and thus the subtle researches that were done in those books were lost on our primitive robot hand.
Luckily, the Thingiverse hand worked! This will be updated in a future post.
His advice was very helpful! We learnt that there are 32 degress of motion in a hand, and that we had absolutely no idea what those were. We decided that we only needed a grasping motion, but he gave us a good idea with moving the fingers horizontally away from each other. The Leap Motion can give us the angle between the fingers, and thus we may be able to control each of those fingers in a new way.
He showed us different ways we could orient the joints and a couple of ways that joints could be constructed. This was helpful - but since we went ahead with the 3D printing, it ultimately didn't matter. It did help us with conceptualizing how the joints moved, though, and we thank him for that.
Prof. Russell also gave us a couple of suggestions on books we could read (including his own!) that could help us with the construction of the robot hand. Ultimately, these were mainly irrelevant for our purposes as we only needed a hand that could grasp, and thus the subtle researches that were done in those books were lost on our primitive robot hand.
Luckily, the Thingiverse hand worked! This will be updated in a future post.
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