I made some test by using different fabrics for galvanic skin response. Che-Wei Wang has a really good processing sketch and blog post about how to use galvanic skin response with Arduino. So, I used his sketch to test my fabrics.
I am not sure about meanings of results yet, but for now, I am posting my screen shots and names of the fabrics.
RadioScreen
Canopy Mesh Fabric
Ex-Static Conductive Fabric
ESD Static Fabric
Staticot
NaturaShiled Fabric
VeilShield
CobalText
Stainless Steel Mesh Shielding Fabric
Shieldit Super
High Performance Silver Mesh Fabric
AL100 Wall Shield
Pure Copper Polyester Taffeta Fabric
ArgenMesh
Soft&Safe Shielding Fabric
Stretch Conductive Fabric
Textronics Wristband (both on same wrist)
Textronics Wrist Band (on different wrists)
And these are the pictures from my setup:
This picture shows conductive stretch fabric on my fingers and Arduino for getting inputs from my fabrics
This picture shows two Textronics wrist band on my right wrist.
I am very interested in making a good gsr detector/recorder/transducer (i.e. to audible frequency). I used to use the RadioShack model about 20 years ago. I remember it costing less than $10; I am deciding to build one myself.
Can you say a little more about how you make a circuit that connects to an Arduino?
thank you,
John
HI John,
All you need to do, get 2 conductive surface (shouldn’t be too small). One of them needs a power from Arduino (+5v). Other one needs a 10k ground and an input to analog part of the Arduino board.
Hope that helps
m
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