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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Mercury switch sensors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191609.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:16:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.055954.5917@panix.com>, joro@panix.com (Joe Rosen) writes:
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- >
- > have had excellent success using simple mercury bulb switches for
- > directional sensing...
- >
- > currently using them in a hand-held device that allows users to
- > navigate N S E W through a two-dimensional environment...
- >
- > have used them mounted with $1.50 gardening gloves as a "cheap and
- > dirty" data glove-esque direction input device...
- >
- > by placing a photosensitive resistor in the palm of the same glove
- > it was possible to gain Z axis direction input (opening hand in a well
- > lighted room allowd for a change in resist across the palm of the glove
- > to be detected)...
- >
- > lots of inexpensive solutions to VR hardware if ya can settle for the
- > quality of a "garage" level hack...
- >
- >
- >
- >
- What is wrong with 'garage level hack' if people wanted nice packaging Tom
- Edison woul dof never gotten noticed..
- I like your idea of mercury switches..
- Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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