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• Announcements
  

  General news and announcements about the BLINCdev community

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  This forum is a place for the BLINCdev open source community to discuss stuff. This is the first post on the forum and is mainly a test that is both high in quality and q count. qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq

• General Discussion
  

  Anything goes

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  Maybe only the fanciest of Italian restaurants serves that pasta?

• Bento Arm
  

  Discussion and support for the Bento Arm

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  @drwho72 Thanks for your feedback! I have updated the votes on the feature lists.

  I think it may be possible to add in more shoulder DOFs, but we would need to maybe axe the shoulder bearing in order to make more space for servos and as you mentioned use servos with more power. For stronger servos it may be possible to use a higher torque dynamixel PRO servo (would need to be controlled and powered separately) or possibly use an MX-106T with a small transmission to amplify the torque.

  The clinical version of the Bento Arm is well on its way and we are hoping to have a working system installed in our local rehabilitation hospital by midsummer. I am investigating increasing the payload capacity by upgrading the existing MX-28AT wrist flexion servo to one of the ones from the new dynamixel X series (probably XM430-W350-T). They are actually a bit smaller than the MX-28AT model, but provide significantly more torque.

  As for the communication options for brachI/Oplexus -- we have already begun using these protocols in experimental builds and will hopefully have TCP/IP and UDP modules available in an upcoming release.

• HANDi Hand
  

  Discussion and support for the HANDi Hand

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  Have you made a HANDi Hand or a HANDi inspired Hand? Share it here
  Also, please do share constructive feedback from your build, so that we can improve our source files and documentation for the next release. Also if you have ideas for new things that you would like the HANDi Hand to do please share that in the feature requests topic.

• brachI/Oplexus
  

  Discussion and support for the brachI/Oplexus software

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  Once we start getting some questions I will post the most frequent of them here.

• 3D Printing
  

  Tips and tricks for 3D printing all the parts

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  I'm curious what resources out there we have to learn how to 3D print. A fun hobby project would be to print out assets from games for costume type purposes but how do I even approach this topic?

• Machine Learning
  

  Machine learning methods and their application in Robotics and human machine interfaces

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  @djphan I recently came across an interesting medium article that gives an overview of the voiceprint technology being used by some organizations as a way for authenticating users as an alternative or secondary measure to the good old standard password.

  As with any kind of developing tech it looks like their may still be some vulnerabilities as a pair of twins were able to fool the system as described in this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39965545

• Sensory Feedback
  

  Feedback devices that help humans feel what their robot is feeling (or vice versa!)

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  Is this the gateway to Robot vs Man extreme "Simon Says"?