The Tatum1 Fingerspelling Hand I worked on the Tatum1 flagship product, featuring 22 actuated degrees of freedom. This web-connected robotic system is able to faithfully reproduce the range of motion of the human hand needed for ASL fingerspelling. Buttonpad allows a user to check email. news, weather, an much more.	Tensioning Jig Form-fitting jig which isolates movement of the hand in a neutral position. This is required for proper tensioning of the actuator tendons that drive abduction, flexion, and extension.	Perkins Products Division Tatum Robotics Boston offices at the Perkins School for the Blind. Built in the mid 19th century, this wing housed the original Perkins Brailler manufacturing operations.
Packaging Prototype Onshape model of the packaging urethane foam proposal, giving the team a first-hand look at the unboxing experience before ordering any materials.	Packaging Prototype Onshape model of the packaging urethane foam proposal, with outer box removed. This gives the team a first-hand look at the unboxing experience before ordering any materials.	Packaging Design Onshape model of the hand as shipped, in an all-PVA foam packaging proposal.
Packaging Prototype All-cardboard packaging prototype. Laser-cut materials are designed to assembly easily and without glue, be reusable (for return shipping if necessary), and recycle like a box. Packaging holds the device in an arbitrary location within the outer box, an was shown to protect for up to 2 meter drops.	Packaging Prototype All-cardboard packaging prototype. Laser-cut materials are designed to assembly easily and without glue, be reusable (for return shipping if necessary), and recycle like a box. Packaging holds the device in an arbitrary location within the outer box, an was shown to protect for up to 2 meter drops.	Packaging Prototype All-cardboard packaging prototype. This laser-cut pattern folds up into the end-support shown in the next image.
Packaging Prototype All-cardboard packaging prototype end-support piece. Folded and secured with only tabs both eliminates a glue-step and increases compliance, providing better isolation from impulses.	Packaging Design Final shipping version of the hybrid-cardboard EPE foam packaging before folding.	Packaging press-tool CAD Model of forming-press to precision bend the cardboard insert along laser-cut perforated lines.
Packaging Assembly Station Hybrid cardboard-expanded polyethylene (EPE) foam packaging stacks ready for assembly. The device to right is a custom forming-press to make two precision bends in the laser-cut cardboard inserts such that they fold up reliably.	Packaging Design Final shipping version of the hybrid-cardboard EPE foam packaging.	Packaging Design Final shipping version of the hybrid-cardboard EPE foam packaging.
Assembly Organizer Custom dispensing to keep assembly materials organized and labeled.