sensor mat?

[Chuck]

Dee Dee,

I have a pressure mat that is called Bed Check. Its primary mission was to alert nurses that someone was out of bed at night (to help prevent falls). I got one for $69 and put it under the front door mat and connected it to a hacked Eagle Eye MS13 (X10) and it works great. It is rather large and I am not sure that it would be tripped by a light weight glass. Hacking the MS13 is pretty easy as I just soldered a few wires from the light sensor portion of the sensor which is nothing more than a change of state. The X10 DS10A can also be used without any soldering.

I can imagine making a light weight switch that could be made from two pieces of thin wood that would have two strips of metal at one end that would activate a DS10 or MS13. The wood would be separated at one end by a very small strip of wood so that the platform is always in a ‘V” shape. Once something is put in the platform the wood would bend and make connection and active something. Since it is just a change of state is matters not which state activates whatever you want activated. You would just write the code in the ON or the OFF state.

If there is a cabinet that is opened and closed then use a door sensor to activate whatever you are trying to activate.

Chuck

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 1:21 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear XTensioneers,
> 
> So I have an application where we need to somehow be able to place a very small sensor to detect when an item, say less than 1 lb. is placed on it. Then I need the sensor to tell XTension about it so that XTension can do stuff.  The mat should’t be larger than maybe the size of a mousepad. 
> 
> Any thoughts or advice?
> Thank you,
> Dee Dee
> 
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