Arduino Wireless Animatronic Hand

BTW!!!!! This instructable is awsomeeeeee


This is a very simple but at the same time a very hard project depending on your skill level. Lets get to building!

What this is, is a wireless animatronic hand that doesn't need a computer to operate. The user wears a control glove and can control the animatronic hand precisely. Bellow are some pictures of the final product:

Step 1 Video

Comments

[loxagos_snake]

Hey...that was SO astonishing! Sorry for being out of topic, but this is kind of a career question...I am studying Physics but I always wanted to get into the bionics/cybernetics research area and I'm not sure if I'm in the right science. So I wanted to ask you, have you studied Electrical Engineering or another engineering principle? Or did you learn how to do this on your own?

Thank you, and again, great instructable!

[njkl44]

Sorry for the delay but I'm actually 16. I made this when I was 15 but I'm all self taught :)

[acarballo]

Self taught? WOW could you share with us mortals where did you learn all this? im very interested in knowing of this.

[vdemons]

Great tutorial, but what are the positive and negative poles on a flex sensor, i don't know which ones which?

Please and Thank you in Advance!

[njkl44]

Sorry for the delay but there aren't really. As always try it for yourself and you'll learn tons more!!

[Dr_Deelta]

very inspiring project thank you Easton for the great project you built. I'm definitely gonna build it for one of my friend who has only one hand>
May god help you and make your life easier and amazing>
All the best for you and for the great website .instructables.com

[Caleb Nehrbass]

Next, make it walk on its index and middle fingers!!!

[Hitm_n]

brainssss lol

[javajunkie1976]

Is there a way to build this without an Arduino?

[ac1D]

How many of us can say they gave an handshake to their creation? Lol this is brilliant!

[WhiteHatJake]

Is it possible to make a full-scale human body with the same principle as your Instructable?

[mwolf2]

Theoretically, yes, but I think overall you'd have to find some super strong servo's, some super strong yet flexible piping and alot of time to do it. but overall NO, you'd have to create a biped platform for it to move as a human, costing thousands.

[WhiteHatJake]

Oh, thanks for the answer.

[kalsara01]

GREAT GREAT GREAT WORK........... hats off .. wel done pal

[rtty21]

Add a video!

[9ale7]

yes a video !!! ( and more pictures while it's in action)
:P
looks amazing !

[njkl44]

i am going to try this weekend or maybe next week

[9ale7]

will be waiting :)

[njkl44]

here a VIDEO!!!

[mcmahanly]

camera? lens?

[bduré]

not bad for your first one

[thunderconan]

can you give me ur email pls ????

[njkl44]

Sure thing its [e-mail]

[joehudy]

were ded u get the flex sensorsand are thay expensiv
sorry abought spelling

[mased007]

When I get older I make this :) Thx for good idea.

[TheGreatS]

could you place it on the ground, add some wheels to the back and make it crawl?

[chsairam_7]

why did'nt you map it to 1024 analog values and 180 servo angles; would'nt that be more effective? I made a similar hand months ago and it was pretty cool

[zachrattner]

Cool project. You can clean up that chunk of if's by using the constrain function: arduino.cc/en/Reference/Constrain

[Bombbunny]

What program can I use to open up the xbee recieve and send files?

[njkl44]

The code here is actually for the arduino. There is no code for the xbees you have to deal with. You configure the xbees in XCTU but you open the code in the arduino programming program

[9ale7]

looks amazing
.. what camera did you use?
:P

[Macyoshary]

Really cool instructable!

Just one thing, your first line reads "This is my first inscrutable to its kinda bad."
change "inscrutable" to "instructable" and (I assume) "to" to "so", (and "its" to "it's" but that's forgivable).

It's just that the first line is the first thing anyone sees, so it's good to get it nice.

Otherwise, great!

[Spaceman Spiff]

I'd delete the first line all together. Or replace it with, "This instructable is AWESOME!!!"

[lolcat360]

Calvin and Hobbes FTW!

[Macyoshary]

Yeah, that could work too :P

[kyle brinkerhoff]

looks a little like darth vaders hand.... awsome work!

[maewert]

Very neat!

I see there is no blocking of data being transmitted. I mean within the stream there is no indication where the stream starts. Does this sometimes get confused as to which finger is which, especially if the receiving arduino is powered up after the transmitting arduino? If so then you may want to send a blocking character like '$' before the first finger is transmitted and then the reciever can look for the symbol to remain in sync with the transmitter.

Cool device. I'll have to try this ;-)

Best Wishes.

[njkl44]

Hey thank you I'm really glad you like it and there's not a whole lot of problems only about if 30 seconds without use the receiving start sending stuff to the sending wich im nit sure y but I see what you were saying and I may try somthing like that.

Thanks, Easton