My brother and I came up with the idea of making a prosthetic arm that was controlled by motions of your shoe. We had been looking for a cool project on the web, and saw a person who made their own prosthetic arm. It worked, but was controlled by a chin switch, which meant that using your arm made you move your head everywhere. We came up with the idea of moving your foot instead. Our prosthetic arm uses a shoe controller with 4 degrees of freedom (currently). Tilt shoe Left/Right rotates the arm left/right. Tilt shoe up/down moves the wrist joint up/down. Click the big toe down closes the gripper, and click the big toe up opens the gripper. There are other switches inside the shoe for additional degrees of freedom, but we aren’t using them right now.
We are using an Arduino microprocessor with pololu 6 axis servo controller to run the mechanicals. This project is in the early stages.
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