Curious Components | Ep 3 - Flex Sensor

There are sensors that you expect to exist: like one for temperature or light, but did you know there's one for detecting bends? In this episode, our heroes play around with this strange sensor, the flex sensor, and face a puzzling creature: raw data. Will they grow wiser to this data and master the flex sensor? Or will they give up and snack on doritos? Here are some tutorials to help you out. From Sparkfun - http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/270 and NYU - http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/sensors/Reports/Flex Some projects to give you ideas Sign Language Glove - http://www.clloks.com/2010/09/sign-language-glove/ Robot with Whiskers - http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/04/13/map-bot-floor-mapping-robot/ DIY bend sensor that is used in a doll - http://www.instructables.com/id/Neoprene-Bend-Sensor-IMPROVED/ Curious Components - Take your Arduino skills to the next level, one component at a time. WRITER, DIRECTOR, & HOST: Tom Elovi Spruce - https://twitter.com/ilovecomputers CAMERA, EDITING, & DRAWINGS: Luis Mascareno - http://luismascareno.com/ SOUNDTRACK: "Little Sisters" by Feryl - http://archive.org/details/Chipmusic.orgEasyListeningCompilation CLIPS USED: "Don't ever divide by zero on AVR atmega32!" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7pUADoo58 Futurama LOST Portal 2 The Wizard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNAlLLeeNM This web series was produced through Arts 70 | Digital Media Bryan Jackson, Lecturer Michael Matthews, Teaching Assistant Digital Arts Claire Trevor School of the Arts University of California, Irvine