Force Sensitive Resistor Round 0.5 Retail


Posted on Feb 7, 2014

The 0. 5` force sensitive resistor (FSR) is a quick way to measure pressure, and is very easy to setup. The FSR varies its resistance depending on how much pressure is applied to the sensing area. The greater the force, the lower the resistance. When measured with a multimeter, the sensor has a resistance of greater than 1M © when no pressure is ap


Force Sensitive Resistor Round 0.5 Retail
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plied. The value of 27k © was chosen to give the output voltage the greatest "sweep" from 0-5V, assuming that the sensing range (resistance sweep) of the sensor is 0-100k ©. The sensor is soldered to jumper wires and another (27k ©) resistor, with the output voltage connected to A0 of the Uno. If you`re new to soldering, be sure to read the Soldering 101 Tutorial. Using this circuit, we can simply read the Analog 0 input, and the Arduino will return a value somewhere between 0 and 1023, with 1023 representing 5V. The value decreases when pressure is applied to the sensor. This proves that the circuit is working, but what if we want to calculate the resistance value of the sensor We can find this using the equation for a voltage divider: In this case, the Arduino is measuring VO. Since its output is 0-1023, with 1023 representing 5V, we can replace VI with 1023. Also, since we know that the value of R1 is 27k ©, this equation becomes: Note that this equation for Rfsr only works for the 27k © resistor value of R1. We can now plug this in to our Arduino sketch, using the value read from A0 as VO, and print out the resistance of the FSR. // <7465> * //ExampleSketchforthe0. 5"ForceSensitiveResistor //3/17/11 // //SetuptheFSRasR2ofvoltagedividercircuitwithR1avalueof27k //VoutconnectedtoAnaloginput0 //PrintsresistancevalueofFSR // //WARNING:Resistancevalueonlyvalidfor27kresistorifusingadifferent //value, usetheequation //...




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