In our very first assembly of the whole glove, the attachment of the glove was made possible using felt. The felt pieces were wrapped around the palm and wrist, and then clipped on using an elephant clip.

However, we realised that this was not able to hold the device down firmly as the palm and wrist would be stretching upon movement of the fingers. As the felt was not stretchy, this caused the attachments to slowly loosen. As such, we decided to modify the design of our palm and wrist attachments, and used elastic bands instead. To cater to different palm and wrist sizes, we have also made something similar to a watch strap, using D rings and velcro strips. These can be seen in the image below.

Figure 1: Improved wrist and palm attachments

Figure 2: Top View of our entire glove setup

Putting the Exoskeleton Together 2

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