Now that the code for the ball has been written we moved on to working out the basic circuit for the ball. Pressure sensors are fairly simple to wire in , they just require some extra power ether from VIN or 3.3v pins in order to get some good readings. Below is the circuit diagram that was made in order to build the circuit.
This circuit seams straight forward to build. It consits of a micro processor which is the photon , a sensor which in this case is a FSR (Force sensitive resistor) or pressure sensor as we call it. Along with a resistor , we are using a 2.7m resistor. We proceeded to wire this up using a bread board first to make sure that everything worked fine.
below is the end result of this stage
below is the end result of this stage
Hopefully the idea is to have this placed inside a tennis ball making the technology invisible to the user.The aim from this is to allow the ball to become seamless so the user dose not have to think about using it , so it becomes natural to them.
We want this technology to be able to fit into the everyday object such a tennis ball or a stress ball , but there is no reason why it couldn't go into another everyday object such as a shoe or a door handle. its like the saying goes if the shoe fits , but in this case if the photon fits.
We want this technology to be able to fit into the everyday object such a tennis ball or a stress ball , but there is no reason why it couldn't go into another everyday object such as a shoe or a door handle. its like the saying goes if the shoe fits , but in this case if the photon fits.