MfingerBot

The MfingerBot was origionally designed as a sarcastic art work. The mechanism is complex, though the function is simple: to show a middle finger.

Driven by 4 servos, the 4-axis robotic arm was connected to the laptop via Arduino, Firefly, Grasshopper, and Rhino, taking orders transmitted wirelessly from an Android tablet. The positions of fingers on the tab screen was gathered and used as coordinations of finger movements. This robotic arm prototype was later used as the structure of the summer session studio project: Plugin LA of UCLA.

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Work flow: Android Device → UDP → Grasshopper/Rhino → FireFly → Arduino → Servo → Robot