Sensor Research
- Here are some more ideas and leads for sensor research.
This is a mirror of the webpage found at
http://itp.nyu.edu/danclass/physical/SensorResearch.html.
- Electroluminescence Panels, Paper that lights up (try All Electronics Catalog)
- PIC microcontrollers Images Catalog
- LCD text display module eg jameco 150990, application note 1, or scott edwards
apliction note 10
- Video Text Display Module , overlay text on top of video using the basic
stamp. eg jameco 162051
- Sound chips. Record and playback sound samples. eg jameco 1074334 or 116484,
radio shack kit.
- Earth Measurement, humity etc... eg jameco 170106
- Robots eg jameco 170131
- More digital inputs than the stamp has? demultiplexer eg radio shack 276-2829,
or application note 18
- More digital outpus than the stamp has? 8 bit serial in parallel out eg
radio shack 276-2841
- Air pressure sensor eg jameco 163731
- Ultrasonic Distance Sensor eg jameco 151482, application note 12
- Infrared Remote Control reciever eg jameco 106382 radio shack has one too,
application note 11
- Radio Frequency Wireless data transmission. I use abacom 416 236-3858 am-rt5
trans, am-hrr3-4 rec but you should look through ads in nuts and volts for
others.
- Photo Electric Switches, beam like burgalar alarm switches much better than
photo cells. eg jameco 161349
- Motion Detector switch, radio shack sell one
- X-10 A very cool way to turn on and off (OR DIM!) devices remotely using
electrical wiring to send control signals. transmitter eg radio shack 980-0197
power line interface transmitter , 980-0187 lamp module reciever, (special
order not in stores), application note (stamp 2) 1
- Solenoids, like an electronic piston, good for robotic control and control
of air and liquids eg jameco 145314
- Stepper Motors, Little Step U parallaxinc.com, motors with very very precisce
movements. eg jameco 169720, application note 6
- DC motors motor minder parallaxinc.com
- Using Transistors as a switch
- Vibrating motors, eg jameco 169421
- Muscle Wire, wire that contracts and expands when you give it power, eg
jameco 141348.
- Air Muscles Images Catalog
- Solar Power, application note 17
- Electronic Compass eg jameco 126703
- Speech Recognition eg jameco 162691
- Tilt Sensors , accelerometers, eg Allied www.allied.avnet.com The part #
is adxl202eb
- A/D converters, application notes 2, 22,(stamp 2) 2
- Hall Effect sensor, measures magnetism, application note 5
- Op Amps for amplifying very small amounts of voltage (like from a microphone),
radio shack
- Phone Line Interface, application notes (stamp 2) 3, scott edwards appliction
notes 7, parallaxinc DTMF transciever kit.
- Midi Stuff, talk to the yamaha pro 1 mixer to change levels and get sound
effects (in the midi lab), listen to the pitch to midi converter to find pitch
(check out item), listen to the alexys drum module to listen for vibration
(check out item).
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