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How to capture motion with magnetic sensor?

Hey there,

Purpose:
I want to design and build a basic system that detects human movement using magnetic sensors. These sensor will be attached to the human body.

The problem that i have is that i dont understand how to build this system. I understand that you must have a magnetic sensor (Any suggests on which would be helpful) that contents to a transmitter (again any information would be nice) that is then connected to the PC, where a software package will convert the signals from the transmitter into useful information.

So a basic overall of the structue is:

Sensor (Detects movement) ------> Transmitter ------>PC


Any ideas on how this could be acheived? also at low cost.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Rich

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Some of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor

And some of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter

Look for them at your local electronics component supplier.

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