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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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Sensor Interfaces

How circuits communicate with the outside world.

By Tom lgoe

A typical home appliance contains several sensors, from the switches and dials you interact with to the temperature sensors and limit switches that keep your coffee pot from overflowing or setting the house on fire when the last cup is gone and the heater’s left on. Sensors are central to a hardware hacker’s vocabulary. The more of them you know about, the more responsive your devices can be.

What follows is an introduction to the characteristics of most sensors, so you know the range of possibilities. Later, I’ll show how to use a few specific sensors.

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