Recommedation for Sending Pressure Sensor Data

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Recommedation for Sending Pressure Sensor Data

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Have created a flexible cloth pressure sensor for paintball use. Need recommendation of arduino products to use to send 20 streams of information to computer. There will be 20 vests using these sensors all needing separate ids, all sending info simultaneously and vests are hit by reusable paintballs. Any help would be appreciated

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Will the vests have a wired connection to the Arduino or not?

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Re: Recommedation for Sending Pressure Sensor Data

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Have created a flexible cloth pressure sensor for paintball use.
Neat, what kind of signal does it output?

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adafruit_support_mike wrote:[moved to General Project help]

Will the vests have a wired connection to the Arduino or not?
At this point in time yes, unless something simple is available

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Re: Recommedation for Sending Pressure Sensor Data

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For wired connections, you can use the MCP23008 and MCP23017 I2C port expanders:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/593 - MCP23008 (8 pins)
https://www.adafruit.com/products/732 - MCP23017 (16 pins)

They're both generic IO devices whose pins can be configured as inputs or outputs. They communicate with an Arduino or other microcontroller using I2C, so you only need two pins to talk to them. They also have address pins so you can put more than one of them on the same bus.. up to 8 of them, for a total of 64 GPIO lines with the '017.

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