[sdiy] Peratech force sensors (was Wireless World Chatterbox pdfs?)

[Tom Wiltshire]

Has someone mentioned these people in connection with this yet?

http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/product_info.php? 
cPath=24&products_id=42

There look to be some useful things for aftertouch sensors, but perhaps  
not polyphonic.

On 16 Feb 2007, at 10:00, Paul Perry wrote:

> That's a damn shame.
> I still don't believe that they work the way they think they do.
> In any case, they are just elastomer with tiny (very tiny) nickel
> spheres mixed in.
> Perhaps someone can find some "prior art" & then we can make our own!!
>
> Alternatively, there is the kind of force sensor that is made from
> a layer of tiny pyramids on a substrate that flatten with pressure &
> increase
> contact area with a covering conductive layer.
> I can't remember who makes these.. they aren't terribly cheap, though.
>
> paul perry melbourne australia
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