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So for our wearable computing project I was planning on using two flex sensors to measure how straight someone's back was. Using this information you could have a tiny led that would light up on a person's wrist near their watch whenever they did not have proper posture.
they were loose so the professor suggested soldering for the finished project. I successfully soldered both of the sensors to the wires, or so I thought. After placing the sensors I put the shirt on. When I hooked the arduino board up to my laptop I was getting no values from the sensors. When I took the shirt off this is what I saw. ForI ended up taping sensors to the wires for the first iteration of the project comparison a 'good' sensor looks like this.
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Now although this happened to both of them the other one was in slightly better shape. So I attempted to superglue the wiring to it. This was by far not my best idea.
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The results don't look that bad. However they do not get any consistent reading. This has led me to realize that it is a good thing I do software for a living