A KINECT managed ROBOTIC HAND

It’s that time of year once again when the senior style jobs come rolling in. [Ben], together with his partners [Cameron], [Carlton] as well as [Chris] have been working on something extremely ambitious considering that September: a robotic arm as well as hand managed by a Kinect that copies the user’s movements.

The arm is a Lynxmotion AL5D, however instead of the included software application suite the people rolled their own indicates of controlling this arm with the assist of an Arduino. The Kinect captures the user’s arm setting as well as turns that into data for the arm’s servos.

A Kinect’s resolution is limited, of course, so for whatever beyond the wrist, the team relied on one more innovation – flex resistors. A glove integrated with these flex resistors as well as an accelerometer supplies all the data of the setting of the hand as well as fingers in space.

This data is sent over to one more Arduino on the develop for orienting the wrist as well as fingers of the robotic arm. As shown in the videos below, the arm performs incredibly well, just like the very best Waldos you’ve ever seen.