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  06 Tech Tuesday – Interactive Floors

  Interactive floors have been around for at least 15 years and vary in resolution and sensing functionality. Commercially they are used for three purposes that I know of, Commercial Applications safety mats (large piece of machinery stops working if you step on or off of a mat). These tend to be super durable low resolution […]

  Posted: January 24th, 2012 ˑ  No Comments
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• Capacitors for Capacitive sensing

  These are the recommended types of capacitors to use when using capacitive sensors like this MC34940 from freescale Ceramic CS Ceramic NPO or COG PPS film I believe it is because of their tolerance for temperature change. this is a good page talking about different capacitor types

  Posted: September 9th, 2008 ˑ  No Comments
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