Week 6-

		Week 6
	

The assignment

Collaboration

The assignment

Force Sensitive Resistor

		The force sensitive resistor is a sensor that can detect and measure pressure that is put on the 'touch-plate'.

		It can measure from a 100 grams up to 10 kgs. 

		Below is a systematical imagine shown of force resistor connected to the Arduino. I made this imagine in the app 'Fritzing'.

		Shape    Sensing area      Min pressure Max pressure
	

		The code and tutorial I have found and followed, were found on this website; 

		http://www.esp8266learning.

		com/esp8266-force-sensitive-resistor-example.php

		After some tweeking the code immediatly worked, so it wasn't really hard to find.

		Kaj gave us some simple assignments to understand how electricity circuits work, it was easy and fun to do!
	

Collaboration

		This week Moritz and I teamed up at the first lesson. Together we did the assignment about circuits and the communication was pretty good. After we started the actual assignment we both started working on our own actuator/sensors. We intended on just being there for each-other when we needed it, but in the end we didn't really need each-others help. 

		During this minor I have only worked very closely to my fellow classmates, sometimes you learn more from just doing your own thing.

		The code is very simple and minimal, you define the pin (the A0) and the force reader.  In the loop the force of the pressure plate is called and printed in the serial. I gave it a little delay to be able to read the numbers coming from the serial monitor. 
	

		In these two little video's you can see the working of the pressure plate. When you press it and have the serial monitor open, the numbers will go higher if there is more pressure applied.

		While using this pressure plate I was wondering in what scenario you would be able to use this. It could be something like a burglary alarm; whenever someone steps somewhere when they really shouldn't the alarm goes off.

		This weeks zine was about scarcity for me. I made this in photoshop, but I found out I prefer working on paper. It takes me less time and is more zine-like. 
	

Zine

Collaboration

Zine

		This is me soldering a pcb together, I found out i'm pretty good at soldering because I have a steady hand. 

		I would like to keep on improving this skill.