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From: Marc Nicholas <marc@rednet.demon.co.uk>
Subject: RE: BUILDING TACTILE SENSORS
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In article <khD9Kqu00iV6EAtJ52@andrew.cmu.edu> Samuel Giles Miller,
sm7z+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
>Ercon Inc.: This small company in Ma. makes conductive rubber and
>conductive inks.  You need to build some sort of semi-rigid circuit
>board with inter-digitated fingers to apply to one side of the rubber. 
>The idea is that the rubber actually has a rough surface that under
>minimal load comes in contact with your circuit only at the peaks of the
>micro-bumps.  As you press harder more rubber comes in contact with the
>circuit.  They can make rubber with all sorts of conductive properties. 
>The samples I experimented with had only a limited range where they were
>usefull.  Very cheap....try it.  Ask them to make samples "very bumpy"
>for better results than I got.  Nice people

I'd be interested in the address/email/phone/fax/whatever of Ercon.....


Marc.
