Prosthetic Hand

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Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie to arduino and need some help. I am trying to create a hand prosthetic. My plan involves using EMG sensors to detect muscle movement. I plan on creating a code to then cause DC motors to turn based on the information received by the EMG sensors. I would like to know how I can connect 5 DC motors to an Arduino UNO board as well as the EMG sensor. I plan on 3D printing a shaft attachment for the DC motors which would allow me to wrap a cable around. This would then allow for the cable to wind or unwind when the motor spins in one direction or the other.

Would this be possible? How can I connect 5 DC motors to an Arduino as well as an emg sensor? Would I be able to program so that the motors respond to the information received by the EMG sensor?

Thanks in advance.

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Nice project. Stuff like this is made since almost ages. What in Your design would improve existing designs?
Being new to Arduino can be overcome. Whats Your background regarding programming, Electronics and mechanics?

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I mainly want to create this design in order to learn new skills, such as Arduino. But the new thing I wanted to try with my design, to answer your question, is to power the design with a solar panel.

Railroader:
Nice project. Stuff like this is made since almost ages. What in Your design would improve existing designs?
Being new to Arduino can be overcome. Whats Your background regarding programming, Electronics and mechanics?

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Okey. There are plenty of constructions that can be powered by solar energy. To learn Arduino You could have choosen a bit more easy task. Involving sencitive, delicate muscle sencing calls for really high level knowledge about electronics, noice supression etc.

Go ahead and collect knowledge how to run DC motors, how to read the sensors. By the way, attache a link to those sensors. It is seriously needed.

Use the magnifier symbol up to the right for "Arduino + DC motors" resp. "Arduino + 'Your sensor'". You do that work, not me.

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"Would this be possible? How can I connect 5 DC motors to an Arduino as well as an emg sensor? Would I be able to program so that the motors respond to the information received by the EMG sensor?"

I suggest you use the forum Google search function in the upper right of this page to search for the key words of your project. You will probably find many similar previous project discussions and code to get you started.