Hackaday Prize Entry: UAProsthetics, a Powered Hand
One of the great successes of desktop 3D printers is custom prosthetics and orthotics. For a fraction of the price of a prosthetic arm, you can buy a machine capable of producing hundreds of completely customizable prosthetics. [Taran Ravindran]’s project in the running for the 2017 Hackaday Prize follows the long tradition of building customized prosthetics. His prosthetic hand designed to be simpler and cheaper than conventional artificial limbs while still giving us some innovation in how this hand will move.
The digits on [Taran]’s hand are controlled by linear servos pulling on a series of Bowden cables. One servo …read more
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