Week 3- Initial Design and Materials

After refining our solutions, we have come up with an initial design for the exoskeletal gripper. The diagram below shows the initial design, but only for two fingers. The actual prototype will cover a full hand; the diagram below only shows the beginning of our design. 

Figure 1: Initial sketch of the exoskeletal gripper

The materials necessary to build a prototype of this design were also refined. A tentative list of materials includes: a soldering kit, rings to use as hinges, copper wire, and magnets. For this project, an actual design will not be made. Only a prototype model that does not have the full functions of our project will be constructed. Figure 2 shows a basic soldering kit which seems sufficient for our group to build our initial prototype. The brass rings to use as hinges, spool of copper wire and magnets are shown in Figures 3 to 5 respectively. The hyperlinks for the purchasing sites for the following materials are located in the project overview section under materials within the subsector named projected budget.

Figure 2: Soldering Kit [4]

Figure 3: Brass Rings [5]

Figure 4: Copper Wire Spool [6]

Figure 5: Roll of Magnets [7]

Material Procurement will be completed by the end of next week. The pictures of materials posted are not the exact materials that will be used in the project.