How can light accelerate healing?Although having super powers would be fun, it is not possible at the moment. However, accelerating healing through light is possible and is backed up with years of research from the likes of NASA, the Military, and Research...
Somewhere in Portland, there's a restaurant that serves grasshopper sushi rolls. Is it safe? Is it good? I don’t know!Because I am a grasshopper researcher this summer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I have other questions in mind: How do people catch these...
The two arms can be used to pick up objects and move them to the person controlling it. It can be used to provide medicine, food and water or manipulate a phone, tablet, or other device. The voice circuit can be used to facilitate communication for those...
The problem....Firstly lets define what is home automation. Oxford dictionary defines automation as:"the use or introduction of automatic equipment in a manufacturing or other process or facility"What we are trying to achieve with our modern homes should...
BackgroundSwitch interface is widely used by most electric powered wheelchair users for using computers and augmented and alternative communication (AAC), which is also well-known from a famous user - Professor Stephen Hawking. The video below shows...
The robot has 3 main systems: Frame, muscles and valves and pump, and control.FRAMEThe frame of the robot was constructed using laser cut MDF, custom aluminum hardware, and various 80/20 components. Essentially, the frame is little more than a simplistic...
The Concept Modern robotics hardware for the hobby market has been reduced to a series of modules, from servos to processors. The only things connecting these together are wire and chassis, and I've been experimenting with using easy to obtain materials...
Tremor is an unintentional, rhythmic muscle movement involving to-and-fro movements (oscillations) of one or more parts of the body. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, head, face, voice, trunk, and legs.The...
When materials are electrospun, a strong electrical field pulls and stretches the droplets as they are extruded. This stretching can bring the fibers produced down into the nanometer range. I've gotten a lot in the micron range already, and there are...
The Quick Story: Back a few years ago, I built a 3d scanning rig for my 3D printing store in Pasadena (Seen here with Metalnat). The purpose was to offer 3d selfies and then 3d print them (as we did at Hack-A-Day's 10th Anniversary party, room with green...
Heart Rate Monitoring with the MAX30101 Heart rate is a measure of how many times our heart beats per minute and is usually represented in just that "beats per minute" or BPM. Photoplethysmography is a very popular technique for measuring heart rate....
This is my very first development board project. After shrinking about 15k worth of equipment to a custom board the size of a credit card that can read your muscle signals, to winning TechCrunch Disrupt's 2015 Hackathon with an IoT device that tells...
Executive SummaryProblem: In the United States, there are 143,000 individuals who have lost the use of their dominate hand due to a stroke. Of these, approximately 93,000 will have not successfully recovered the use of their hand after 6 months of treatment....
All project files are available on Github (https://github.com/Tacpar/TPAMs). There is a video included in there, and if you can get past the cheesiness of the "approved for public release" music on the video, you will see a few of the cool experiments...
One of the most important aspects of consideration in the realm of prosthetic design is mental loading. The ability to control the many muscles within our body is a gift - one that people with amputees do not completely have. There are are range of prosthetic...