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Lab 4 - Sensors: Force sensitive resistors and photocells

Date: 
Thu, 09/20/2007

In the past lab, we explored potentiometers (or “pot” for short) which are analog sensors that measure rotation. In this week’s lab, we’ll be exploring two other analog sensors. The first sensor measures light brightness and is called a photocell (or a “phot” for short. Okay, that was a lie). The second sensor measures force and is called Force Sensitive Resistor (or “FSR” for short). Thus far, the pot, phot, and FSR sensors convert some physical action into an electrical characteristic, namely resistance. In addition to new sensors, this lab will introduce “Processing” which is a programming language for creating more interesting UIs than the text based one’s you’ve been using.


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