====== How to Setup your Syntouch Numtac Sensor ======
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**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, Arduino>
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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 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 understanding of Arduino
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  * [[tutorialTemplate#construction|Setup]]
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==== Preparations ====
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**Step 1**
As the sensor uses a 6-pin JST connector and the Arduino	 doesn’t, we would need to make our own cable. The following picture shows what port of the JST leads to what. Therefore, when soldering the jumper wires to JST, pay attention to what goes where as it is very important. 
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**Step 2**
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==== Programming ====

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==== Final Words ====

The tutorial’s objective was to give those interested for an output from a Syntouch pressure sensor and get some sort of understanding of how data is being perceived.
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Speculating future work derived from this tutorial, you can use this in more of an application-sense as adding this to some sort of robotic hand. In the big picture, the problem of retrieving data from can be solved with this tutorial.

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For questions, clarifications, etc, Email: <palusf1@unlv.edu>