PROJECT TÝR

PROJECT TÝR is a cheap, smart and versatile prosthetic arm.

My solution is a cheap and capable prosthetic hand that is capable of seeing it soundings and change grips. It also  contains novel futures like pseudo felling, finger spraying and 3 degrees independent thumb. It increases life quality of disabled people. Furthermore, it uses computer vision,mmg/EMG and color sensors.

I am trying to solve the problem of not having an arm, and this is a massive problem.185,000 people have an amputation each year. This means that 300 to 500 amputations are performed every day(https://accessprosthetics.com/...). Losing a hand is especially hard, since it really reduces the amount things can do and makes rest much harder. Because of this, many of these people suffer psychological issues. My aim is to reduce these inconveniences and pains.

It serves for people without hands. I hope that it will improve their life by mimic capabilities of abled hand.

I read experiences of people without hand.

Because it still has features to add like voice control via mobile Internet, and it isn't completely made from 3d printed parts it still has handmade parts which the final product shouldn't have.

Project TÝR has a raspberry pi4 this raspberry pi4 has a webcam attached to it. With this webcam pi4 sees objects around it and with its AI (opencv and tensorflow lite ) it decides which objects are ahead of prosthetic.  I also experimented with voice control and it Works fine with Google voice recognition(I also tried pocket sphinx which doesn’t need internet but Works way worse ) .But it isn’t fully implemented yet. Project TÝR also possesses two muscle/hearth(depending on users budget) sensors which one is attached to persons shoulder and other close to edge of missing limb. (one in the shoulder has secondary function depending on grip for example for mouse movement from shoulder presses second mouse button). Project TÝR also uses a color sensor so that user can manually change mods (I didn’t want to use buttons because person who uses this might not poseses another limb) by pointing sensor to rainbow colored piece of cloth.Project TÝR has an advance wrist system that can make all movements of a regular human wrist, the capability to spray its fingers, which provides better grip at round objects and better typing experience. Furthermore Project TÝR possess an advance thumb finger which provides greater range of freedom than even a normal human thumb.Moreover, thumb index and middle fingers has embedded pressure sensors. According to data pseudo feel the unit operates. 

I hope that it will be used by thousands of people because I plan to make it entirely free and open source.

I just hope to make disabled(people without hand) people's life better.

I plan to look at how many people downloaded necessary files for prosthetic hand.

I lack time and nessecry resoruces like 3d printer and to improve my design. I also can't use CAD software.

I didn't do any volutering work. But i am working on projects since my childhood and i like creating since my childhood. 

I don't work with any organization.

- i am not a girl so i don't qualify.

- My solution is unisex, so I don't qualify.