Over the past few days, the Beowulf team has been sprinting to get our first functional prototype assembled and working for the Hackaday Prize deadline.

We did it fam.

Not only did we get the entire hand assembled, but by combining the linear actuator with its h-bridge circuit and a Myo that's interfaced with an Arduino, we successfully achieved motion of the exoskeleton using EMG data from the Myo armband. Talk about clutch.

This is a video highlighting all of our hard work in this project (Using buttons to fine control the prototype for safety):

Beowulf is no where near complete, we learned so much from just this first successful prototype itself and we are going to continue to iterate and make our exoskeleton better and better. We learn as we go and even though we learned a lot, we still have a lot to learn.

Thanks for reading!

- Beowulf Team