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Re: tuch sensitive sensor
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:19:31 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Øyvind Steinnes wrote:
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> There are many aplication you can use this type of sensor for. Like a robot
> that should grip something, and you dont want it to grip to hard. Use those
> tuchsensitive sensors on the "fingertips" on the robotic arm and it can
> "feel" when the fingers are tuching something and know how hard its grip is.
> Another aplication is a piano. Tuchsensitve sensor under each keys, and the
> piano knows how hard (fast) you have tuched the keys and kan make the volume
> of the tones acording to that.
> 
> I've looked around on websites but cant find any sensor like this.
> Is there one already out there someplace? Or maybe someone is up to the task
> to make some? Do this sounds intresting at all?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Øyvind Steinnes
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Phoenix

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't the buttons on the PlayStation 2 controler
all analog? They seem to do exactly what you are talking about, but maybe there
is some better processing going "on under the hood"? I wonder if you can pick up
an old controller off of e-bay and get at its guts?

Jona
LEGO Robotics Group of Ann Arbor - http://www.24tooth.com



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"Jona" <jona@24tooth.com> wrote in message news:HqB44J.204J@lugnet.com... (...) robot (...) those (...) is. (...) the (...) volume (...) task (...) controler (...) there (...) pick up (...) The button on the PlayStation 2 controller is analog, but (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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Hello folks, I just come up with an idea, maybe there is a sensor like this made already... I'm thinking of a tuchsensitive sensor. Not the on/off type or with only one resistor value. I'm thinking of a tuchsensor that can register how far the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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