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While using the switch and potentiometer were straight forward, the flex sensor required a bit more work, including a voltage divider and some testing. Most tutorials suggested using somewhere between 10K and 100K of resistance in the voltage divider, so I went with 30K since our largest resistor was 10K and I didn't have too much space to stack more resistors in series. It seemed to work alright, but sometimes exhibited weird behaviors when unflexed, with its analog readout momentarily floating to a +-400 range sometimes. I suspect this is probably to do with the connection of the pins being kind of loose on the breadboard, and would probably switch to using an amphenol FCI clincher connector or solder lower gauge leads on if I were to use it for a project in the future.   


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