Project information

  • Category: Advanced Lab in BME
  • Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
  • Project date: Aug 2019 - March 2020
  • Link to Project

Updates to Oded's Hand

Worked under masters student Shunit P. in the Technion Biorobotics and Biomechancnics laboratory (BRML) upgrading a low cost open source prosthetic arm.

  • Electronics: Learned and modified the PCB design in Eagle and Tested the motor controllers' sensing capabilities
  • Housing: Modeled and 3D printed new housings which reduced the overal weight and improved comfortness
  • Software: Programmed a setting which grips items with preset torque limits. Addtionally created a calibration mode for the user to modify the strenghts (Adruino C++)