Tag: knee

Design details

We’ve completed a first iteration of the leg brace and delivered it to the user. Video and pictures should be coming soon (since the user will be interacting with the leg brace this weekend). In the meantime, the following are some updates: In a previous entry, we showed the box enclosure, which will hold the …

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Knee progress

The knee subsystem is responsible for rotating the knee portion of the leg brace. It uses a gear motor that interfaces with a vertical worm drive gearbox in order to rotate a shaft that has an arm that is attached to the gearbox system and the brace to move the leg. The knee motor is …

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