Week 10

Hello World!

Well, here we are, Week 10! The ultimate week to my srp!

This was the last week I spent on site, and this week was really laid back, I just had to graph out a bunch of 3-D mesh plots and then I was able to finish my final presentation.

As I worked through my presentation, I reminisced about everything that I had learned. It was a really great experience. I learned so much, about the technical side of prosthetic development, and the movement of the prosthetic. I actually got to use a prosthetic, and learned the frustrating reality of its capabilities

Also as a bit of clarification, I am going to take some time to properly explain the main error I encountered during this project. So, when grabbing an object in this experiment, and with things in real life, your fingers curl in. When doing so with the motion sensors, the motion cameras around me, as seen in the picture to the right, didn't pick up data. 

So then along with that, my final presentation came as the final culmination of this entire project. Although I did procrastinate and watch a couple of videos on Youtube, I was able to mostly stay on track and finish up my presentation. It was interesting when compiling the social attitudes, because I went in depth on different societies, but as an overarching analysis, I saw how with the Industrial Revolution, and more manual jobs, the increasing near for prosthetic functionality increased. Earlier with societies, such as Egypt or Greece, and even in the middle ages, prosthetics centered around cosmetic appearance. That was just something neat that I noticed.

As for my final product, I still am trying to decide what to do, so if you have any suggestions, please include them in the comments section. 

Yeah, and that's a wrap! Thank you all for reading! 

Week 9

Hello World!

Almost there, second to last week! 

So this week, I had a total of 30 excel files full of 1800 or so data points, I spent almost all of this week. Thinking about it, the motion sensors picked up data every 20 milliseconds in each 6 second trial, and some of the data was incomplete because the cameras could not pick up the motion sensor. 

So I had to export the data from each of the excel files and interpolate it with a MATLAB function. I had to fill in the blanks for the data, so that I can plot the data and look at the velocities. WIth the velocities, I can analyze the movement of each of the sensors, to look at the overall motor movement of my hand and the prosthetic. 

I have to finish my presentation for the 13th, so most of my week was also spent compiling the info that I had gotten from the papers I read. It was really interesting to put all of that information in front of me and see some of the problems that I had noted. Possibly the most important knowledge I gathered was that the willingness to accept and adapt is the most important aspect for a prosthetic user. They need to accept that their life is different and they need to adapt and  learn how to live their lives as close to how it was before. They need to also accept that having a prosthetic makes them nothing less than everyone else. And to make this transition easier, is what I hope to help with my research. 

So that was my second to last week, it was fun, just compiling the info and data, which I will be analyzing soon. As usual, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments below. Thank you!

Week 8

Hello World!

Week 8, home stretch here I come! 

So, this week was off to an excellent start, I started by reinstalling MATLAB after my computer stopped working, and then realized that I needed to get some work done on the paper end, by looking through some papers of social stigmas. This week literally sped by fast and was a whirlwind of information that I am still recovering from. 

After reinstalling MATLAB, I decided to take a look at the data I got. The only problem was that there was some uncertainty in the data that I had obtained. I needed to go through the notepad files and then export them to excel, which was a simple by very time-consuming activity. After doing that, I renamed all of the files by the trial number and the object that I was interacting with. Basically each of these files had the x,y,and z values for the motion sensors attached to the thumb, index,middle, and ring fingers, the pinky, and one on the palm. I had this data for the movement that my hand and the prosthetic did when grasping the object. I organized and sorted all of my data out into excel files and made sure I had everything I needed.

But the thing is that all of these time-consuming tasks are really hard. I may just give up. On second thought, this is probably my last post for this project since I am quitting. See Ya!









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  APRIL FOOL'S!

Yeah, no I am not quitting, just felt like including that in for the sake of mentioning that it is already April! 

So back to what I was saying, with the data, I am going to be running it through MATLAB with a function to interpolate it. Essentially, what I will be doing is use a function to plot the data, and fill in any gaps with logical data given the other data. After I interpolate the data, I will begin with the next part of the analysis! If you guys need a better explanation, just ask away in the comments below. See you all next week! 
**EDIT-It won't allow me to post gifs, sorry about that**