Hi Guys! I'm totally new with arduino and circuits. However, I'm looking to learn more and I need your help.
I'm looking to add 2 or 3 flex sensors to Arduino board and I want the Data to be sent real time to my laptop to read resistances of different bending motions.
Can you suggest what I should purchase?
Would the starter kit have everything I need?
Do I need a special driver and software to read in data from the Arduino board? ( I would prefer a CSV file that I could analyze using Matlab)
Any Help would be much appreciated. Thanks in Advance
I'm not sure if starter kits include flex sensors, but in any case they're available at places like adafruit. To hook it up is easy: it's one side of a voltage divider so all you need is another resistor and some wire. It's conceptually no different from reading the analog voltage from the wiper on a pot; as shown here. Note you won't be measuring the resistance as such, but that can be calculated from the equation for a voltage divider.
I have little experience about getting data into the PC, but Processing is probably a good place to start: that's exactly what its for.