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Re: Conductive Foam
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:24:27 GMT
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Janet and Carl McIver <jncmcivr@gte.net^IHateSpam^>
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Conductive foam is would be great, but press down on it a few times and
watch it not return to its full shape. If you used it as a sensor, you have
to have very low resolution, because it doesn't recover much.
> Has anyone come up with any sensors using the conductive foam used in
> packing IC Chips. Years ago I saw a couple books on home-brew robotics and
> they were using this foam as a pressure sensor. Pass a current through the
> foam and the resistance varies with the amount of compression of the foam.
> On top of that the foam has a nice texture to it that would make for great
> grippers on a robotic arm.
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