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okay... i have a touch sensor that i'm hoing to be able to activate my two talking skulls. i was wandering if i could program this with VSA to triger them.i can't get th pictures up right now but i will later.

ok here are the pics.

How lightly did you have to touch this to activate it, I wonder if its a simple contact switch like a mat switch.

If its a dry contact switch then it will work with Exorcist, if not then you need an interface circuit, and its unlikely that you will get much help unless someone know exactly how to build that particular component into a circuit.

let go back a couple of steps.... how do you want the skulls to trigger? ie what action do you want to sense to activate them.

first you don't have to touch it very hard.. i have no idea what exocist is. i'm wanting to try to use this with what i already have. VSA and my two talking skulls.

i want it to be where when someone pts there hand on this it activates the skulls whole routine programed by VSA......


hope this helped..... i don't even really noe what i'm talking bout.. lol

-evileyes

If it takes only a light touch then its probably a capacitance or resistance sensor... maybe even a peizo microphone..... and its going to takes someone with electronics experience to actually have the sensor and build it into a circuit..... you are probably better off coming up with a more achievable idea.

But this is only part of the problem, you need a method for triggering VSA, and VSA on its own doesn't provide a method for remote triggering, there are some keyboard hack methods about, but the best method is Exorcist from skullTronix

Need more info on your touch sensor evileyes, to see how it works, as far as starting your routine on VSA you could use a key board hack as phoenix stated, a very cheep way and I have used it before with good results you just have to tear up a key board, or you could use a KeyWiz-ST, this is a keyboard emulator that you hook up a dry contact switch to, I use this and it works great and its only $32.95! KeyWiz-ST [KWST0001] - $32.95 : GroovyGameGear.com, Always the best in Arcade, Jukebox, Kiosk, Gaming and Industrial controls

Hey Evileyes, I found a touch sensor on parllax site that might work for you. QT113-D Touch Sensor

thanks death master & phoenix. i might try the keyborad hack thing.

i used the keyboard hack last year. it was nice to just hit a single button i put next to the door and away it went!

I assume you need this because the skulls are motion activated and in the dark they don't sense any movement. A simple solution I've used is to paint a paper towel cardboard core flat black on the out side and spray the inside silver. Then place a white light - LED better, incondescent OK, at one end of the tube and duct tape in place - I use black duct tape here. Now strategically place the tube directly accross the path your visitors will enter. The wider the path, the more of the white lights you will need inside that tube. BTW, the light will also act like a weak spotlight on your subject prop.

I like to use cut down Christmas lights because I hate to keep replacing batteries.