[sdiy] pressure sensitive ribbon controller

[Ingo Debus]

Sarth wrote:
> does anyone on this list have knowledge or experience with
> force/location/pressure sensitive resistors? I am attempting to design a
> midi ribbon controller, similar to the Kurzweil Expressionmate, or the Korg
> Kaoss pad, which senses in 3 axis one of which being pressure. I looked into
> the tactex fabric, but it's response is too slow, would need to put force
> sensing resistors underneath it to trigger note on messages.

I've seen a (sort of) datasheet on Conrad's website where a
"Linearpotentiometer" FSR (force sensitive resistor) is described. This
type of FSR senses the force *and* the place where the force is applied
(1 dimension only). The datasheet is in German, it should be available from
http://www.Conrad.de
But Conrad doesn't carry these FSRs, only the standard versions. Does
anybody know where the "Linearpotentiometer" can be obtained?

Ingo