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[ARVash]

Fixed typing errors, his spacebar and n key must have been sticky. I
wasn't able to figure out everything he was saying, so I left some
still in error.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/openprosthetics/web/lego-hand
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

[SENGR_11]

I am an engineering student at Sweet Briar College. My advising
research professor, and I were looking into doing prosthetics research
this summer. Our interest is in prosthetic hands, hints the interest
in this project. Is there a specific group or person we could contact
for more details about it or is everything basically online?

[Daniel]

SENGR:

I would be happy to help you with your project. You can contact me at
my ghost email adress: prost...@yahoo.com

[SENGR_11]

I began summer research today. I have constructed the hand using the
documentation online. I am now researching and waiting for my advising
professor to come back in town to see what our next step will be. I
will do my best to update my progress weekly.

[Jon K]

I'd certainly appreciate your making sure that you fill in any gaps in
the documentation that you find. Remaining work includes figuring out
how to actuate the hand using NXT. If you're ambitious, documenting
the hand using a LEGO CAD model, including modeling the pieces used
that aren't in the standard LEGO CAD packages would be awesome.

In general, the LEGO hand group is very active this summer, but is not
functioning very well as a virtual community. Anything you can do to
get dialog moving on the wiki (http://openprosthetics.wikispot.org/
LEGO_Hand), Ning site (http://openprosthetics.wikispot.org/LEGO_Hand),
or elsewhere would be great. We seem to still get a lot of emails from
people interested in the hand project, and there's really not yet any
place online where what has been accomplished on the project is
explained in a clear way.

I'll go ahead and speak for your advisor in saying that he'd
appreciate it if you took the initiative to get right to work on
whatever you think the next steps shout be, or in figuring that out if
you have no idea.

Thanks very much for your help.

Jon

[SENGR_11]

When I followed the documentation I had a little trouble with the
different views and that some of the parts did not have a quantity
label. I can review the directions again and mark possible changes
then email it to Jon. I took a look at the LEGO CAD program and I
remember someone saying it did not have all the parts that were used
in the hand. I have an idea about possibly using Autodesk Inventor to
model the parts and using the assembly option to show the different
steps. I am very familiar with this program and would not mind doing
this.This would allow for clearer view of the pieces and a more
uniform direction set.
My research is going well. I have spent the last two weeks researching
all robotic and prosthetic hands I can find. I am now currently
working on making a compiled brainstorm of all material and component
ideas so my professor and I can sit down and decide what we would like
to build.