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Quick and Simple Soft Switches (for quick prototyping)

Quick and Simple Soft Switches (for quick prototyping)
The are many different ways to make a soft switches.
This instructable shows another option of a very quick prototype for the soft switch, using an aluminum tape instead of conductive fabric, and solid wires instead of a conductive thread, which both of them, the thread and the fabric are the best materials for really soft switches. But more expensive which I wanted to avoid in this prototype.


 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
1. Thin sheet of foam
2. Any non conductive fabric
3. Aluminum tape
4. Solid or stranded wires; 3 different colors
5. Multimeter
6. Solder
7. Sawing needle and thread
8. Arduino board
9. Simple LED

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Sep 5, 2011. 10:43 PMMiss_LyLa says:
what kind of foam could be used ? because somewhere I saw it could be done with foam out of the kind of electronic foam used for microcontroller, but when I tried it didnt work:/


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