DIY Prosthetic Hand & Forearm (Voice Controlled) : 14 Steps (with Pictures)

Grab your EasyVR shield and your arduino uno. Pop the EasyVR shield onto the arduino uno, be careful not to bend any pins. Take the EasyVR microphone and if it isn't connected already locate the pins that say 'Mic' and plug it in. Now that you have the correct software installed and prepped go ahead and open a new arduino sketch in the old 0023 IDE. In the upper left click 'File' and go down to 'Examples' hover your mouse over 'EasyVR' and in the options that pop out select 'EasyVRBridge'. Upload this program to your arduino by clicking the upload button. Your EasyVR is now ready to be trained so go ahead and open the EasyVR Commander program. In here you can add/train commands to your fancy. In order to use my full code you will need to add certain commands in a certain order. Click on the first 'Group' over on the left hand side. There should currently be no commands in it. Go ahead and click 'Add Command' in the tool bar near the top of the program window. Do this for each of the programs I will list below, be sure to type the same names in the same order! Optional: You can also train another trigger command, do it the same way as the commands but just click in the 'TRIGGER' group and train the word 'JILL'.

TEST
PINCH
GRAB
ROCK
GNARLY
POINT
PEACE
FLICK
NEUTRAL
TYPE
MOUSE
WAVE
THUMBS_UP
PENCIL

Next you will have to train the EasyVR to know your voice for these commands. Click on the first command 'TEST' and then in the toolbar near the top of the window select the 'Train Command' button and a window will prompt you to click 'Phase 1' and then speak the word clearly into the microphone. My advice is just say the words normally about six inches from the mic, sometimes I'd find myself over-pronouncing words and when I actually tried to use them I wouldn't say MOUSSSSSEEEE, I'd just say mouse. After 'Phase 1' it'll prompt you for 'Phase 2' and then after that the word should be successfully trained. Repeat for each command. After the training you can click the 'Test Commands' button in the toolbar and it'll prompt you to say a word on your list and then highlight the corresponding word. Scary! Big brother may be listening...