Week 9: Input Devices

A.k.a. I bent things, shook things, and yelled at things for data(╯▔皿▔)╯

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🪛 Overview

For this week, I tested three sensors — a flex sensor, a gyroscope, and a sound sensor — to understand how physical interaction, motion, and environmental input can be translated into data.
This directhhly connects to my final project, where sensing movement and input is essential for controlling a puppeteering system.

🔹Flex Sensor

👉 Measures bending by changing resistance.

📌 What I did:

• • Connected the flex sensor using a voltage divider circuit.
• • Wired it to the Arduino
• • Added a resistor to stabilize readings
• • Uploaded code to read analog values in the Serial Monitor
• • Physically bent the sensor to observe changes