Creighton – 2015 Summer Fellowship
From a team post to the community in August, 2015:
Hello everyone! Our research team at Creighton University has a new Fusion Cyborg Beast (with movable thumb) that we have been redesigning over the summer and we are releasing it to you all in the format of a .STEP file. This allows you to work with the file without having the troubles of the STL files. A few of the features are
- no chicago bolts, everything is consists of snap pins
- traditional tensioner block that can be adjusted
- movable thumb to create different grips
- internal cabling
We have recorded a video to further explain the details of the device (https://youtu.be/WrXLvnSoMNE). Please use this video to assemble the model.
The zip file is located here (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:261462/#files)
It includes the full STEP file and all individual part STL files for printing. To print, you will need to make sure you have the following:
- palm (left or right)
- gauntlet
- tensioner block
- 5x tensioner pins
- thumb slider (left or right)
- thumb phalange (straight walled end towards the thumb slider)
- thumb finger
- thumb pin (goes in the thumb slider and phalange hole)
- 5x fingers (thumb is the same length as the rest)
- 5x finger pins (thumb is the same file)
- 4x finger phalanges
- 2x knuckle-thumb pin (goes in the knuckle joint for phalanges and then 90 degrees from that pin
- down the thumb side for the thumb slider)
- a small portion of a paper clip. Heat it up and insert it into the pre-made hole of the thumb slider. Video shows an example.
Join the google+ community to find this original post and participate in discussions with these researchers and other enablers in the community. Here are some images from some of their other posts:
Download the Creighton Final Report (pdf) for this 2015 Summer Fellowship.