08890 [alt-beam] Re: Pressure Sensors

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Message #08890

To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dane Gardner" dane@foremostspring.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:02:22 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Pressure Sensors

Have you considered using push buttons or micro buttons with different
ammounts of force to trigger each or have them triggered at variable
heights. Then just have a resistor hooked up to each. The more force you
add, the more buttons would be pressed. You would basically add resistance
to the circuit by pressing more buttons.

I've never tried this before...but it seems like it would work, depending on
the weight of your bot. You can even get buttons with set pressure from
DigiKey. I think they would work perfectly.

CYA,

Dane

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