Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Multiple Sensors

I want my device to work basedon three planes of movement. The X,Y and Z. I also want to take the values that are being output by my Arduino and read them independantly in processing. For this to work I need to create a modified version of the capacitive seonsor to allow for multiple input.

After purchasing a small breadboard, it has become much easier for me to test and experiment with my project, by allowing me to hook up more plates and use less wire, and completely remove the need for soldering.



The sketch works exactly the same when hooked up to two sensors. The input is received from pins 2 and 6, with pin 4 being the grounded pin, to which capacitance is measured against.


Currently the values that are read without touching the plate, peak at around 60. I want to increase these values for later use and to do so only requires a higher value resistor.I currently have 220K resistors fitted to the Arduino, I am looking at increasing these to approximately between 440 to 510K resistors.

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