I was able to find a 1950s pool-side chair from Brooklyn junk. I needed the chair to recall the 1950s so the correlating date of production, 1959, of the movie Come Back, Africa and the travel catalogue Colourful South Africa will become more evident.
I also wanted a chair that had a stable seat and arms so that movement within the seat would be an inclination. I did consider a beach chair for this project, but after testing one out it did not induce movement. The swaying of the cloth seating induced the user to stay still. I concluded that a stable seat would allow more movement to occur than a swaying seat. Weight distribution is allowed a greater range on the stable seat because the user can have more movement upon a stable object instead of a moving object.
The cushion of the chair is easily taken off. It is attached to the bottom bars with three screws. This allows me to insert the sensor and do tests without needing the whole chair. Also having the bottom of the chair being a few bars to support the cushion leaves me with a lot of room to attach the Arduino and Breadboard.
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