Hey everyone,
I'm new here as you can probably see and my knowledge of electronics is pretty limited. Ok, extremely limited. I've been searching for a few hours trying to find the answer to this question and stumbled across this message board, so I figure I'll try to tap the vast intellect here.
The question I have involves using a human to complete a simple circuit. I am trying to make a push-to-make style switch in which the "push" part involves a person touching two seperate pads. I have no idea what the technical term for this is or how to go about it. I will never be working with anything beyond a few standard 1.5v batteries, and always DC current.
I'm having trouble describing the concept, but I've seen several novelty toys that work on this principle. (One that comes to mind is a white ping pong ball size sphere with two metal contacts on the surface. When you touch the contacts,both with the same hand or with opposite hands doesn't matter, the thing lights up and plays a tune.)
Sorry for the long winded post, I'd appreciate any help on this!
- Daniel