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Felt Sensors is a suite of four sensors built using soft circuit and fabrication techniques developed as my thesis while studying at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Through rigorous experimentation the sensors developed were:

Dual Force Sensing Sphere
Force can be applied by squeezing on one axis of the sphere, which give you one range of values, or one the opposing axis to give a second range of values.

Stretch Sensor
Built out of three separate handmade stretch sensors, this can be stretched along 3 isolated lengths to produce 3 separate ranges of values or, when put in series, can be stretched along the entire length giving one larger range of values.

Tri-button Sensor
Two digital switches and one analog switch is built into this large red button object modeled after the “history erase button” from the cartoon Ren and Stimpy. One digital when pressed from the top, the other when squeezed from the side and an analog when squeezed from the opposing side.

Stroke and Pinch Sensor
Comprised of 4 long spikes, when pulled from the base up towards the point you get a linear range of resistance. When pinched along the length, you are able to pinpoint a specific value along the linear range.