Amazing job. A couple of suggestions. You can buy small teflon tubing on eBay that eliminates the drag on the fishing line. Works better than the WD40 straws. Also, instead of fishing line you can use jewelry wire, which is like fishing line with a tiny flexible steel cable inside it, which keeps it from stretching. Available at large craft stores. Also, almost nothing will glue to teflon tubing, though for some reason aluminum tape sticks to it like crazy, so you can wrap a small piece of aluminum tape around it, wherever you want to attach it, then use anything that will stick to aluminum to glue it down. I've made similar hands before. Never found the need to run a line to each joint. If you use teflon tubing to eliminate drag, one line will control all joints on one side of a finger. You just tie it off at each finger tip and the bending gets divided between all joints. Or rather than tie it off, you can run it through the tip of each finger, being sure to secure it, and use one continuous cord for both front and back cords, to avoid bulk at the finger tips. The teflon can also be buried inside the bones, so it's only visible at the joints.
John Heisz Thank you John! I try not to keep track of hours on some of these projects, as it would possibly indicate I was working for 20 cents an hour (perhaps less) and that would be depressing. :-)
I don't think I have seen such outstanding craftsmanship, dedication and patience since I was in the military. And that was for life and limb. Yours was just a project of excellence! Congrats my friend. I'll show this to a lot of people. Thanks so much for all of the above and for sharing!
Another incredible project, Ron. That is SO Cool! And, as always, such excellent craftsmanship! Seeing how much work you put into this project is also an excellent reminder of the beauty and complexity of the two we were blessed with. Aloha. Clayton
wow! that's genius! there are unhappy souls out there with missing hands.. i look at what you did here and my natural step is how could this be used to help someone. terrific workmanship!
THAT is totally Fascinating!! :-O How Ingenious!!!. Impressive!! The logistics of it. This goes to show how complex the human body, in this case the human hand is complex as there are so many tendons responsible for each movements! Congratulations!! Thank you so much for sharing! You should win a prize for this! Mario :-)
That hand is nothing short of fantastic! As soon as I saw it articulate, I knew Id have to build one too! Ive got some mesquite that should make some real nice bones. I also really like your page, not all one topic and lots of interesting projects.
Outstanding job! As someone who was a fan of animatronics since early childhood this is really the bee's knees. But the thing that i love the most out of it is the neatness. It's all tidy, clean and nicely done. It's perfect, really. On a side note, congratulations on 200 videos and here's to many, many more. :D
Happy 200 th ron amazing build really how john said i dont want to imagine how much time you spent abd the details are amazing.and the liquid motion is also cool how to figure it out really ron i will take my hat off lol
Looks nice and spiffy. Though you probably figured out after you jointed and strung it that the joints are annoyingly complicated. Each one actually functions like a trunnion. Its also why arthritis can be the worst in the hands, since its just a thin layer of cartilage in between the bones allowing them to slide against one another. As soon as that breaks down, its just bone on bone grinding. All in all considering you worked just from a single image, it turned out really nicely.
wow! You must have an infinite amount of patience! I think you have one too many joints on the thumb though. It looks incredible, and more than a little creepy when you animate it. Great job.
vert intresting so you used strain enregy to move it huh impressiveyou should try to make a full hand with muscle,you can choose a good substance for it
Droemar No... sorry! I shaped the joints with a drill bit and a Dremel tool. Then glue the bamboo into one side of the joint. Just something you have to play with.
Droemar My bamboo joints have a limited range of motion but that is the best I could come up with at the time. A pined hinge joint (like a door hinge) would be good or possibly a ball & socket joint but those are difficult and time consuming to make for a bunch of small finger joints.
Hey Ronald, I stumbled across your channel from your wooden hand video and I was amazed by the workmanship. I was so inspired by the hand you have created that I wanted to do something similar for my engineering anatomy class. I have watched your all your videos on the hand and I think I have the basic idea down. But I really want to be able to make my hand close all the into a fist which your hand cannot do because the limited range of motion from the bamboo joints you have made. I was thinking about using hinges that you would find in a locket or a small jewelry box. What do you think of this idea, do you see any problems with it or do you have any ideas how it could be executed better. I would also love to know more about the way you made your hand and any insight you could share would me would be greatly appreciated. Once again thank you for making these videos about your wooden hand they are so amazing.
Actual finger joints are difficult to replicate. Real finger joints are like a double end ball & socket joint without the socket. Cartilage in the joints is flexible (in youth), lubricates the joint and provides a tremendous range of motion. But the segments are all held together by the tendons (some interwoven), tendon sheaths, ligaments and muscle, which is difficult or impossible to duplicate in a working model. My fingers have more upward range of motion than would be normal for most people and not enough downward range. Locating my bamboo hinge lower on the joint would probably allow the hand to close more (but will not appear normal) and at that point the pull cord tension will increase on the eyelets which may cause another problem. Searching on RUclips for Mechanical Hand finds many results, including one 3D printed hand which closes too tightly into a fist because the individual control of movement for each finger segment is not possible in that model. I shaped each finger joint by hand using a Dremel tool type flexshaft grinder and just kept grinding until I thought it looked fairly realistic. Use of a wood tenon type hinge would provide the range of motion with less realistic appearance. You will find the various hands on RUclips generally using hinges of one type or another, elastic cords to pull open and pull cords to close. Each of my control levers operate 6 pull cords for one finger which is not how a finger works. The hand provides more individual control of each finger segment. Each control lever could be replaced by 3 servos (resulting in 15 total) somehow controlled by Arduino and programmed to move the fingers more normally. Making something like this for a single college course will probably require way more time than available or you won't be spending any time on the other courses. Starting off with a Halloween prank video, a couple stop-motion videos and finally the completed hand, I spent two years playing around with this (and I am an experienced modeler). Good luck with your engineering anatomy class and thanks for watching! Please Subscribe and tell your friends about mu channel. Ron
"I would really like to see the wood skeleton hand of the person who disliked this video" - must it be the "wood" skeleton or is the real skeleton (-hand or more) the better or wanted choice ;-)?
A Norwegian inventor and film maker, Ivo Caprino, who made many Norwegian classics made his move puppets the same way. I have gathered photos and info on the building of these puppets. I am happy to share what I found, for people interested in replicating a puppet! send me a message, or comment :)
Ronald Walters Being an Engineer is something you are born with, it is a way of thinking and looking at problems. Colleges and Universities do not make Engineers, they just hand out slips of paper that say that you think the way they want you too. I would much rather have someone who can solve problems than quote tables and graphs.
In my humble opinion, I would have to say this is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever seen.
lone wolf Your humble opinion is graciously accepted... and appreciated! :-)
I agree!! ART at it's very best. The human body is the most beautiful thing on this planet. :-)
Amazing job. A couple of suggestions. You can buy small teflon tubing on eBay that eliminates the drag on the fishing line. Works better than the WD40 straws. Also, instead of fishing line you can use jewelry wire, which is like fishing line with a tiny flexible steel cable inside it, which keeps it from stretching. Available at large craft stores. Also, almost nothing will glue to teflon tubing, though for some reason aluminum tape sticks to it like crazy, so you can wrap a small piece of aluminum tape around it, wherever you want to attach it, then use anything that will stick to aluminum to glue it down. I've made similar hands before. Never found the need to run a line to each joint. If you use teflon tubing to eliminate drag, one line will control all joints on one side of a finger. You just tie it off at each finger tip and the bending gets divided between all joints. Or rather than tie it off, you can run it through the tip of each finger, being sure to secure it, and use one continuous cord for both front and back cords, to avoid bulk at the finger tips. The teflon can also be buried inside the bones, so it's only visible at the joints.
Amazing detail and workmanship Ron! I can only imagine how much time went into this.
BTW, happy 200th!
John Heisz Thank you John! I try not to keep track of hours on some of these projects, as it would possibly indicate I was working for 20 cents an hour (perhaps less) and that would be depressing. :-)
I don't think I have seen such outstanding craftsmanship, dedication and patience since I was in the military. And that was for life and limb. Yours was just a project of excellence! Congrats my friend. I'll show this to a lot of people. Thanks so much for all of the above and for sharing!
Quite realistic! Looks like a tremendous amount of work. I enjoyed your previous videos on this hand.
What could there be not to like this video? Most Excellent!
Wow. That creeped me out when it started moving! Excellent job
Very nicely done!
Another incredible project, Ron. That is SO Cool! And, as always, such excellent craftsmanship! Seeing how much work you put into this project is also an excellent reminder of the beauty and complexity of the two we were blessed with. Aloha. Clayton
wow! that's genius! there are unhappy souls out there with missing hands.. i look at what you did here and my natural step is how could this be used to help someone. terrific workmanship!
Wow, you stuck with it and pulled it off! Came out great!
THAT is totally Fascinating!! :-O How Ingenious!!!. Impressive!! The logistics of it. This goes to show how complex the human body, in this case the human hand is complex as there are so many tendons responsible for each movements! Congratulations!! Thank you so much for sharing! You should win a prize for this! Mario :-)
Thank you! Now if I could just get it to play something… perhaps a Ukulele. :-) Hope you Subscribed! Ron
Such a talented craftsman! That is such an inspiring project, i want to head straight to my workshop and try harder!!!
Just excellent!
Awesome work you made an amazing wooden animatronic hand skeleton. Very nicely done.
Nice project Sir. Happy 200th. See you next time.
VERY NICE WORK !!!
This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I am truly amazed of what you've done here!
That hand is nothing short of fantastic! As soon as I saw it articulate, I knew Id have to build one too! Ive got some mesquite that should make some real nice bones. I also really like your page, not all one topic and lots of interesting projects.
Wow! The work and time involved. Its really done well!
Outstanding craftsmanship,i like to shake your hand!
And Congrats on your 200th public video.
Great work
Remarkable work sir!
Thank you. Very much appreciated!
Outstanding job! As someone who was a fan of animatronics since early childhood this is really the bee's knees.
But the thing that i love the most out of it is the neatness. It's all tidy, clean and nicely done. It's perfect, really.
On a side note, congratulations on 200 videos and here's to many, many more. :D
Wow, very nice !
wow that is just awesome!!
Wow! That is complex. I bet a doctor would love to have that sitting on their desk.
Well done. Instead of a tension wire you could use permanent magnets at each joint. Nitinol muscle wire could be fun.
Excellent workmanship.
Very cool!
It's great. Beautifully made! Can it play the piano? :-)
Creepy but you did a fantastic job. Love it
Amazing engineering, wonderful project!
Happy 200 th ron amazing build really how john said i dont want to imagine how much time you spent abd the details are amazing.and the liquid motion is also cool how to figure it out really ron i will take my hat off lol
Really cool! Your creativity is amazing!
beautiful
You are too good man.
Amazing patience you must have.
Looks nice and spiffy. Though you probably figured out after you jointed and strung it that the joints are annoyingly complicated. Each one actually functions like a trunnion. Its also why arthritis can be the worst in the hands, since its just a thin layer of cartilage in between the bones allowing them to slide against one another. As soon as that breaks down, its just bone on bone grinding. All in all considering you worked just from a single image, it turned out really nicely.
Genius is eternal patience- Michelangelo
That is just amazingly cool.
cool video
wow! You must have an infinite amount of patience! I think you have one too many joints on the thumb though. It looks incredible, and more than a little creepy when you animate it. Great job.
Wow! Nice.
can you play your wooden keyboard with your wooden hand?
Been working on that. :-)
very nice
amazing !!!
vert intresting so you used strain enregy to move it huh impressiveyou should try to make a full hand with muscle,you can choose a good substance for it
So cool, yet so creepy!
Thanks! I was looking for cool & creepy.
Класс! Хорошая работа!
You could add motors to it and drive them with arduino. You could make some realy cool animations with it.
This guy is pretty freaking talented
Incredible work. Do you have a video on how to make the bamboo skewer joints?
Droemar No... sorry! I shaped the joints with a drill bit and a Dremel tool. Then glue the bamboo into one side of the joint. Just something you have to play with.
Ronald Walters I am trying to find a good way to make joints that hold their position, if you have any suggestions! :)
Droemar My bamboo joints have a limited range of motion but that is the best I could come up with at the time. A pined hinge joint (like a door hinge) would be good or possibly a ball & socket joint but those are difficult and time consuming to make for a bunch of small finger joints.
Cool
Отлично придумано✊😉
Hey Ronald, I stumbled across your channel from your wooden hand video and I was amazed by the workmanship. I was so inspired by the hand you have created that I wanted to do something similar for my engineering anatomy class. I have watched your all your videos on the hand and I think I have the basic idea down. But I really want to be able to make my hand close all the into a fist which your hand cannot do because the limited range of motion from the bamboo joints you have made. I was thinking about using hinges that you would find in a locket or a small jewelry box. What do you think of this idea, do you see any problems with it or do you have any ideas how it could be executed better. I would also love to know more about the way you made your hand and any insight you could share would me would be greatly appreciated. Once again thank you for making these videos about your wooden hand they are so amazing.
Actual finger joints are difficult to replicate. Real finger joints are like a double end ball & socket joint without the socket. Cartilage in the joints is flexible (in youth), lubricates the joint and provides a tremendous range of motion. But the segments are all held together by the tendons (some interwoven), tendon sheaths, ligaments and muscle, which is difficult or impossible to duplicate in a working model. My fingers have more upward range of motion than would be normal for most people and not enough downward range. Locating my bamboo hinge lower on the joint would probably allow the hand to close more (but will not appear normal) and at that point the pull cord tension will increase on the eyelets which may cause another problem. Searching on RUclips for Mechanical Hand finds many results, including one 3D printed hand which closes too tightly into a fist because the individual control of movement for each finger segment is not possible in that model. I shaped each finger joint by hand using a Dremel tool type flexshaft grinder and just kept grinding until I thought it looked fairly realistic. Use of a wood tenon type hinge would provide the range of motion with less realistic appearance. You will find the various hands on RUclips generally using hinges of one type or another, elastic cords to pull open and pull cords to close. Each of my control levers operate 6 pull cords for one finger which is not how a finger works. The hand provides more individual control of each finger segment. Each control lever could be replaced by 3 servos (resulting in 15 total) somehow controlled by Arduino and programmed to move the fingers more normally. Making something like this for a single college course will probably require way more time than available or you won't be spending any time on the other courses. Starting off with a Halloween prank video, a couple stop-motion videos and finally the completed hand, I spent two years playing around with this (and I am an experienced modeler). Good luck with your engineering anatomy class and thanks for watching! Please Subscribe and tell your friends about mu channel. Ron
Thank you so much, Ron.
that hand is awesome. nice work.
just stand it upright and mount near the door bell. then operate it to ring the door bell :>)
Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud Ronald :)
Very nice! Do you know if it's possible to build a hand in a similar fashion that can make a closed fist?
I guess it would work if the knuckle joints were better than mine.
O_O This can be used for people who dont have hands!!!
Excellentt
muito bom ...
will you put a glove on it and cover up the strings?
This looks cool but I would really like to see the wood skeleton hand of the person who disliked this video.
"I would really like to see the wood skeleton hand of the person who disliked this video" - must it be the "wood" skeleton or is the real skeleton (-hand or more) the better or wanted choice ;-)?
wow you have way to much time on your "hand" haha this is amazing!
Parabéns senhor
Congratulations
A Norwegian inventor and film maker, Ivo Caprino, who made many Norwegian classics made his move puppets the same way. I have gathered photos and info on the building of these puppets. I am happy to share what I found, for people interested in replicating a puppet! send me a message, or comment :)
Dag Elias Sørdal would you be willing to share ?
Would you be willing to share with me please?
They can use those for robots instead of loading them with motors
this is very cool. why do you do this stuff? are you retired? are you an engineer? or is it a hobby? are you self-taught?
All the above: My Stuff, Just for fun, Retired, Modeler, Engineer, Hobby, Self-taught. :-) Thanks for watching. Please subscribe!
I kinda thought you had to be an Engineer to conceive such a complex project. Kudos to you Sir!
Ronald Walters Being an Engineer is something you are born with, it is a way of thinking and looking at problems. Colleges and Universities do not make Engineers, they just hand out slips of paper that say that you think the way they want you too. I would much rather have someone who can solve problems than quote tables and graphs.
Wow. so nicely said. I agree!
Kinda spooky
any templates you might share?
No templates... just search the internet for pictures like I did.
Could you make it play your wooden piano?
SALUDOS DE ECUADOR DONDE PUEDO OBTENER LOS PLANOS DE ESTE PROYECTO.
BUENAZO...
nery rodriguez Sorry, no plans. You would need to build it, as I did, from scratch. Thank you for watching! Ron
weight of wood
How thik is the wood ?
Ivan Olando Started off with 3/4" thick oak.
this is like robotics
🤙✌️🔥🔥🔥
Creepy mate 0.o
Just a small taste of what God had to do.
But can he play the piano? :)
+userunavailable3095 I've been thinking about it! :-)
make it flip us off lol
Omg dude, just use your chakra to move this arm.
I have no idea what that means. :-)
💀
Creepy
soo creepy
gross