[Noisebridge-discuss] best price on sharp IR distance measuring sensor? favorite accelerometer?

[Josh Myer]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:20:40PM -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote:

> acclerometer: i'm using arduino. i don't want to use the I2C or SPI 
> library, so i'm limited to analog output sensors. i think the best i can 
> do is about $30 for ADXL320, also at sparkfun
>

I have one of their modules (I forget which model, I think the 320),
and am happy with it.  I felt bad spending so much on cheap chip on a
cheap PCB, but it's probably cost savings over burning up a bunch of
the things trying to solder SMT.  They're relatively sensitive, not
too jittery, and trivial to interface to arduino (yay for on-chip
ADCs).
 
> pressure sensor is a little too pricey, and you can get pretty creative 
> with a spring or rubber band and a standard pot.
> 

How about a (relatively) cheap DIY pressure sensor?  dstaff mentioned
something like this to me recently, but I haven't had time to play
with it yet:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Flexible-Fabric-Pressure-Sensor/
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