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October 13, 2005
Whisker switches doing serial out
Alice and I have been working on this prototype for a board using whisker switches. We finally got it to work tonight! We just tested out 5 inputs and 5 outs, but we plan on making a 5 by 5 matrix system. We have to plan this out carefully for the final, but essentially, the whiskers (guitar strings) hit the washers on the plexi and act as a switch. We have red LEDs that light up accordingly and red circles that appear on screen (processing).
We have to think more about the material we use. But today we got the whole three parts working. I will post more about this later on when we have this finally made with a matrix of LEDs and these whisker switches.
Detail of the washers on the plexi. We had to get a laser cut with counter sinks for these.
Detail of the how the switches work. You simply brush your hand across this plexi.
Posted by min at October 13, 2005 01:51 AM