I did not have much free time to work on this over the last couple of months, but every once in a while when I did remember (hard not to, I keep the robot hand right in front of the computer), I tried to do something, mostly in the hardware procurement side of things. some of the things I ended up acquiring: - Raspberry Pi Zero (also the Raspberry Pi Zero W, which has wifi+bluetooth internally, but I just received it today thanks to Mr. Arjun Rao ), for more versatile control (also to make possible to connect to the Leap Motion) - AA battery power holders, to use AA batteries to power the servos - A PCA9685 chip, for multiple servo control - various electronic circuitry (probably won't be necessary for this project anymore) in addition, I was made aware of a nice project called Cylon.js and its sister project Gobot , which allows users to program microcontrollers using JavaScript and Golang, respectively. I really wanted to try Gobot and take a dive into ...