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Sensors Magazine, December, 2002 by Henkel, Stephanie vL
Too many thumbs? Too much intuition? Here's help. Stavros Antifakos and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are developing a flat-pack furniture kit instrumented with cheap motion and pressure sensors that report to a battery-powered microchip in one of the pieces. The test item is an IKEA wardrobe, which comes with instructions that can seem intuitively wrong to the overly thoughtful. It turns out that there are 44 ways to try to build it, but only 8 that will succeed. With the Antifakos method, advice, tips, and warnings appear on a separate computer screen connected to the microprocessor over a wireless link. Next up: built-in LEDs that blink or stay steady, depending on how you're doing.
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