Bionic Artificial Muscle Prosthesis

https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/eceprojectsland/STUDENTPROJ/2013to2014/ras578/Writeup/An IR Muscle Contraction Sensor.html

In a paper by one of Bruce Land's presumed students a novel method for measuring muscle contractions uses infrared detection. The method is much cheaper than using op amps typically used in EMG.

It smells amazing, that new computer smell. However the 16 channel relay board is much too huge for this project. I have some smaller boards coming as well.

An amazing resource a series of lectures by Bruce Land

https://hackaday.io/project/8670-all-the-ultrasuper-capacitors

https://hackaday.io/project/8744-joule-heating-actuated-artificial-muscles

https://hackaday.io/project/10325-potassium-sulfur-silica-battery

https://hackaday.io/project/10246-reusable-graphene-silver-gel-emg-pads

https://hackaday.io/project/10243-1200-mahg-lithium-sulfur-silica-battery

I am not focusing on this right now as all the technologies needed for a legit prosthetic hand are still being developed by me, I will be aiming at finishing this for the assistive technology portion of the 2016 HAD prize.

I have most of the CAD work done so I have that going for me but there is so much else that needs to be developed.