week 5

Firstly we design a new housing for the hand using fusion 360 to a 4 piece frame which we then laser cut using 5 mm pvc. We then assembled the pieces and glued the servos down, circuit and 3d printed hand.

We decided to change the glove to a work glove as it made the glove look more stylish and professional. We used a knife to cut a gap in each finger and slid the flex sensor in between the two levels of fabric so they stay in place.

In the code we faced a problem with connecting the Bluetooth. So we first re tested the circuit with out blue tooth and it worked so from this we learnt that the problem was definitely with the Bluetooth. So we decided to to change to an nrf24 which is a radio transceiver. We added the NRF24 library to the Arduino after changing the code we were able to gain a connection the only problem was the thumb wasn't connecting but after changing the flex sensor it was successful.

Author-Matt