[sdiy] Possible Ribbon Controller Material?

[james.husted at mac.com]

It is cheap enough to try out but I doubt it will work. I'm sure the  
resistance over distance along the ribbon would not change much since  
it is designed to discharge static from the wearer to ground (while  
handeling computer equipment etc.) I have made ribbon controllers in  
the past using recording tape stretched over pcb material. Many audio  
and video tapes have great resistance over distance specs and of  
course are very cheap. Some act very much like linear pots.

-James


On May 5, 2007, at 11:38 AM, scottnoanh at peoplepc.com wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Out of nowhere, I received this circular from a company called
> 'cyberguys.com'.  It's mostly just computer stuff, but one thing  
> caught my
> eye:
>
> They have, on sale for $1.49 each, a disposable cloth wrist strap.   
> It's
> four feet long, made of cloth, and one end has a copper strip with  
> adhesive,
> which would be used for sticking to the chassis of whatever one is  
> working
> on.  The other end is just wrapped around the wrist.  It looks like  
> a cloth
> strip with some black conductive material running down the center  
> of it.
> I've never seen this before - has anyone tried it out to see if it  
> has the
> right properties for a ribbon controller?
>
> Found the item on the web here:
>
> http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=14730
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
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