Animatronic Balsa Wood Hand

here is something i built 3 years ago over the summer. All it really does is open and close the fingers of the hand but it also shows  how tendons work in a real human hand. It really is a quite interesting project and can start you with some basics of programing basic stamps in P-Basic language. Feel free to subscribe to the YouTube channel also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sdb6X4M9Fg

Step 1 Materials List:

1. Plywood board 12 inches long and 5 inches wide or bigger.
2. A standard servo preferably from Parallax.
3. Any kind of Stamp preprocessor that you know how to use. If you are using Parallax sample code will be provided later on.
4. Pins/Needles, 100 pins should be enough... you only need one sewing needle.
5. A spool of thread.
6. 6, 3-4 foot pieces of balsa wood. about a quarter on an inch wide and a sixteenth of an inch of thickness. (you will probably have extra)
7. Two to four screws.
8. A small spool of copper wire. (should not be insulated, preferably thick gauge.
9 super glue, and hot glue.

 Optional: Dental rubber bands 

Comments

[Kiteman]

This is cool, but it would be even cooler to see a short video of it in action.

_{(Upload it to YouTube, then embed it here, and the video will drive views to your project as well.)}

[palms14]

i did try to embed the video im not sure why its not working
there is a link below

[Kiteman]

You have to use the "old" embed code:

<object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1sdb6X4M9Fg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1sdb6X4M9Fg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="390"></embed></object>

Which gives you:

[palms14]

your the man!

[Kaptain Kool]

I agree.