====== Snytouch ======
**Author:** <Francis Palustre> Email: <palusf1@unlv.edu>
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**Date:** Last modified on <MM/DD/YY>
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**Keywords:** <Syntouch, Numatac, Tactile, Sensor>
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This screenshot above depicts the Arduino receiving pressure data which can be seen in the serial monitor and the line graph.

The intent of this tutorial is to have students who don't understand how to retrieve data from the sensor and to view the results. This tutorial is mainly used as a quick setup to those who wish to program using a tactile sensor because knowing the necessary information and understanding is difficult and time consuming. As most of the complex setup and information is given, this shouldn’t take longer than 15 minutes, but time will vary depending on what the objective is.

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===== Motivation and Audience =====

The tutorial’s motivation is to help those who wish to gain a basic understanding of compliant tactile sensors and serial communication, mainly SPI (the one being used for this example). The tutorial assumes the reader has the following background: 


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  * Basic concept of serial communication
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  * Basic understanding of programming
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  * Basic understanding of Arduino
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The rest of this tutorial is presented as follows:
  * [[tutorialTemplate#partsListAndSources|Parts List and Sources]]
  * [[tutorialTemplate#construction|Construction]]
  * Programming <!- delete this line if not applicable ->
  * Final Words

==== Parts List and Sources ====

US-based vendors to obtain material to complete this tutorial include <list relevant hyperlinks or phone numbers and addresses>.
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^PART NAME/DESCRIPTION             ^VENDOR              ^VENDOR Number or URL       ^PRICE          ^QTY       ^
| SynTouch’s NumaTac® tactile sensor  | Syntouch.com        |   |~ $4,000-$5000     | 1 |
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==== Construction ====

This section gives step-by-step instructions along with photos to <fill in the blank>. (If a circuit-building tutorial:) A schematic to construct <fill in the blank> is shown here <add image>. <Add hyperlink to PDF of schematic> is the Acrobat file of the same schematic.
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**Step 1**
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<Add photos to make step easier to understand>
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**Step 2**
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<Additional steps like **Step 3**, **Step 4**, etc>
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==== Programming ====

A link to the source code can be found <provide URL to your code, probably saved in this DASL Wiki>.
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The goal of the code is <brief explanation>.  It works in the following way
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The snippet above serves to <fill in the blank>. It does this by <fill in the blank>.
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==== Final Words ====

This tutorial's objective was to <fill in the blank>. Complete <choose: construction details, source code and program descriptions> for <fill in the blank>. Once the concepts were conveyed the reader could <fill in the blank>.
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Speculating future work derived from this tutorial, includes <fill in the blank>. In the big picture, the problem of <fill in the blank> can be solved with this tutorial.
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For questions, clarifications, etc, Email: <paul.oh@unlv.edu>