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Re: Wiring Pressure Sensor into Digital Sidecar

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
The DSC has "pull-up" resistors on all of the GPIOs. This means that, when nothing is connected to them, they will "act" as though they are connected to +5V.

This means you need to hook the pressure sensor up to the GND and SIG pins, such that when the switch closes it will pull the SIG down to 0V.
When we tried that it didnt work but when we connected it to +5V and SIG it worked...