DIY FSR sandwich

DIY FSR sandwich
How to build your own tasty force sensor sandwich in three easy steps. These 1"x1" FSRs are part of the bed_data project at ITP.

If your project needs to use many FSRs, making your own surely reduces the cost of your project.

What you'll need:

Materials
Copper PCB ($7ish from radioshack)
Conductive foam ($7+shipping from altex. $13 total)
Wires
Gaffers tape

Tools
Scissors/Shears/Wire cutters
Soldering kit



 
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Step 1Cutting

Cutting
We made 1"x1" squares from the conductive foam and copper board.

A manual shear was used to cut the copper squares and regular pair of scissors for the foam.
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4 comments
Mar 18, 2011. 4:37 AMhyunus says:
uhm..,helo
there something i would to know,what kind of application can be apply for this DIY fsr,i hardly want to know please..
Mar 15, 2011. 1:17 PMbungalobob says:
Are you force-sensing a bed in this picture? Because I was thinking on useing these for the very same reason
Apr 25, 2010. 12:14 PMzack247 says:
so, these are technically variable resistors based on pressure or something else?
Nov 30, 2009. 7:25 PMjam BD says:
useful =D
many on them

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