Wearable force / pressure sensor

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Wearable force / pressure sensor

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Hi,
I’m trying to make a wearable sensor that gives a result about force being applied on someone’s foot.
Which sensor should I use? I’m thinking about using a force sensitive resistor but I don’t know how to connect more than one on a single arduino and get an overall result. Also, a load cell wouldn’t help because I need it to be a wearable.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thank you,
Daphne

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Re: Wearable force / pressure sensor

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This guide shows how to connect and read values from an FSR: https://learn.adafruit.com/force-sensit ... r/overview

To connect more than one FSR, you would connect each one to a different analog pin and combine the readings as needed in your code.

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