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Subject: 
Re: Conductive Foam
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:24:27 GMT
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Janet and Carl McIver <JNCMCIVR@GTE.NETantispam>
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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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