Thursday, 9 May 2013

May 09 2013

Title: Searching for the source of the noise

1. Thread sewed in the wrong place. 
Today we found out that a single conductive thread was sewed in the wrong place as shown below:

The problem here is that the conductive thread does not have the thin layer of fabric below it and so it always connects the top layer of conductive sensor to the bottom layer. I will fix this issue as soon as I can get some conductive thread.

2. Reversing the 10 pins on the Arduino
I plotted the FFT plots again after reversing these pins. Below are the new FFT plots:
They look a lot more reasonable, with a lot less spikes. We can still see the spikes at 7 Hz and 15.3 Hz in some cells but they are much less than the previous time and with much less power.

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