Flex sensors are great to say how bent something is in a project, but we have problems with durability when we use them in portable applications such as gloves. The Sparkfun Qwiic Flex Glove Controller isolates the vulnerability at each Flex sensor to enable more durable applications. Essentially, this board allows the integration of Flex sensors into a glove to control light, sound and other effects was perfect for portable and e-textile applications! In order to make the use of this controller even easier, all communication takes place exclusively via I2C, using our practical Qwiic system. However, we have still broken pins at a distance of 0.1" if you prefer to use a breadboard.
The Qwiic Flex Glove controller has been equipped with an on-board ADS1015 ADC to I2C chip, so you can get a variety of analogue inputs without touching the ADC pins of the microcontroller. If you plan to fit this controller board into gloves (since it was originally designed for this purpose) to get sensors on eight fingers (thumb not included), you will need four Qwiic Flex Glove controllers. With two gloves equipped with these boards, you can even start making your own VR glove controllers! If you have four controllers on the same I2C bus, you must use any address available to the ADS1015, fortunately there are four available!
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