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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
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    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Since 2020, Hannah is guest professor of the Spiel&&Objekt Master's program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin

    From 2013-2015 Mika was a guest professor at the eLab at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee

    From July - December 2013 Hannah was a researcher at the UdK's Design Research Lab

    From 2010-2012 Mika was a guest researcher in the Smart Textiles Design Lab at The Swedish School of Textiles

    From 2009 - 2011 Hannah was a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group led by Leah Buechley


    In 2009 Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab


    Between 2003 - 2009 Hannah and Mika were both students at Interface Cultures
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition
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    Multiplexed Matrix

    The example in this post shows how multiplexers can be used to increase the number of I/O pins for sensor readings or outputs. A multiplexer chip uses control pins to toggle between multiple channels (3 control pins –> 8 channels, 4 control pins –> 16channels).

    also see: Tom Igoe’s Multiple Inputs to a Microcontroller Using a Multiplexer
    >> http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/Multiplexer
    also see: Charlieplexing >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlieplexing

    8 channel multiplexer >> HCF 4051BE
    16 channel multiplexer >> CD 4067BE

    rSkin pressure sensor matrix

    >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=3363
    code >> https://github.com/plusea/CODE/tree/master/PROJECT%20CODE/rSkin



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