User Manual

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To add the trimpot:
The trimpot has three pins. Connect the female end of one of the jumper wires to one of the outer trimpot pins - it
doesn’t matter which outer pin you choose. Take the other jumper wire and connect the female end to the middle pin.
Since you are prototyping, please keep in mind that the jumper wires might become loose or disconnect from the
sensor if you move the parts around. If that happens, you will need to reconnect the jumper wires to the sensor again.
Remember that the PicoBoard has four end connectors - A, B, C, and D - so this means you can have up to four extra
sensors connected to the PicoBoard at the same time! You will see different values for the advanced sensors depending
on which sensors you use.
Trimpot: 0 - 50
Flex sensor: 70 - 100
Force sensor: 100 - 0
Seeing different values is a nice feature, since teachers can use it to start talking about sensor range, sensor calibration,
algebraic range shifting and Measurement and Data correlation.
YOU’RE PROTOTYPING!