Bionic

Hmmm, cool ideas! Never crossed my mind, thanks!

It has crossed my mind to camo it out haha.

All fixed....much better feel to the arm too, obviously feels more secure. The control has improved immensely as well! Soon this will rebuilt into the definitive arm for official testing. Any ideas as far as color? Can go white, black, white flesh tone, real carbon fiber, or any color really....i can even buy a sleeve online with a pattern or picture if I wanted, and it can be laminated into it.

6.2 is a good motor, we run many at work, zero issues so far. Enjoy.

Eggplant parm slices, bbq chicken slice, and 2 stuffed slice nom noms!

Issues with the arm already. Arm has a check valve to allow air to escape the socket that my real arm slides into....this creates a slight suction/vacuum to help hold the prosthesis on. Well, the tube that the the check valves slides into, is all boogered up...received it this way, well its boogered up enough that the O-ring on the check valve will not seal properly. This means the prosthesis sags a pinch from my real arm, which is created a small gap in the socket. Basically, my real arm is NOT bottomed out in the socket, so some of the electrodes, are not in contact AT ALL with my skin. Good times...oh well, hopefully fix it Tuesday, but doubt they have one of those parts in stock that us boogered up, since its a WAY overpriced piece of plastic tube.

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So I did some tuning today, SLOWLY getting this system in line.

Really cool @G-Man thanks for sharing the pics.

I was not aware of that, otherwise I would not have joked like that. I know you’re not giving me a hard time, just saying, but yes it does work, lol.

Wait what? LoL ......ooooooh!!! Yeah lmao

Lol 33, but thanks!

Bleach bath FTW

I just turned 40...

Haha, hmmm what did you picture out of curiosity

I hope so pal, and thank you, it will be a cool moment for me

Sure, you buyin? Hah

Me too! Me toooooo

Haha, that’s what my arm guy said! I told him I will have to work on flicking it against his walls now lol

So today was an AMAZING day for me, life changing....I was never able to bring the fake hand anywhere near my face, I would say I could not get the hand within 10” of my face. This means I could never drink from a glass with it, eat from a fork with it, and so on. Hard to imagine probably, and something that might not have ever crossed your mind. Its life, and you do what you have to do. It has never been difficult, and I have it easy compared to many, but this new prototype arm that is skin fit, allows me to touch my face with the hand! SUPER excited, and it is something I always wanted to be able to do. Now that I can touch my face, I cannot wait to get the controls dialed in, and make an attempt at drinking from a glass with the prosthetic hand, it just means so much to me. I told the man who fabricated the socket for me, and you can see it meant the world to him! It was very cool, he shook my hand when I told him this was life changing, and you could see how he was taken back by it, it was a great moment! As far as controlling this arm, you need to create your own pattern of muscle flexes...you create one for opening of the hand, closing of the hand, rotating the wrist in each direction, etc.... you calibrate the hand through a program on a laptop...the arm ALSO allows you to program it on the go anywhere! Basically you program the hand by flexing muscles in patterns for each hand grip. It learns it, programs the hand, and it will work accordingly. You need to program it with your hand down against your side in a standing position, a sitting position, a position where your arm is over your head, etc....the more you program the arm system, the more it dials in your muscle flex patterns to work how you want it, to work. Basically the more you program, the more it learns your muscle flex patterns....each muscle flex program gets stored within the arm...so if you program it several times, the arm will figure out a muscle pattern of flexes on what the average is of those muscle flexes... Does that make sense? If you are sitting down with the arm resting on a table, versus standing up with it resting on your side, the electrodes will be contacting my skin with different pressures which can affect the sensitivity in which they decipher what the muscles tell the arm to do...so by programming at several positions of seated, standing, etc, you create a more in-tune control of the arm no matter what your posture is... I hope this makes sense, so difficult to explain

Weird to post pics of myself, but it is, what it is...they did a great job with the arm length, posture, angels, etc.

YES! Honestly....it look terribly horrendous as far as comfort looks. I kid you not, and I do mot exaggerate! You can NOT feel ANY of the electrodes. My current arm with 2 electrodes, I can feel both of them, one actually has been ripping/pinching my skin! You can see a red line/scar in the steering wheel pic. These small circular electrodes are AMAZING. You don’t even know they are there!

I really wish that I could describe how it works exactly, as far as the muscles flexes go! Its wild...but yes I am wondering if this is more complex than it really needs to be. However, the new HAND I want to get had up to 23 different hand gestures that the hand can display, with muscle movements from these channels. This multi-channel setup can reduce the effort of making the hand display these hand gestures. I have the 2 channel perfected, so adding 10 more is like WTF lol. Basically you fire muscles in patterns to create specific movements in the hand/wrist. I will be writing a detailed post tonight, or tomorrow, just sooooooo much to describe! You guys are into it, so its worth it though.

All the metal circles, are electrodes for muscle signals.