Learn how to make an open universal input sleeve in this Instructable by CMoz and you’ll be able to add touch input to any build moving forward! Grab your fabric, crocodile clips, scissors, needle and thread and get ready to make:
Using this sleeve, in any configuration can provide inputs for your electronic projects. You can connect it to any circuit board and – use it for touch input (native on an ESP32 board, for example), adding touch capabilities to any project. If your microprocessor board doesn’t have native touch capability, you can use a touch library (ADCTouch, I’ll provide a code example at the end of this guide) to add this to an Arduino-based board.
Once you’ve followed along to create a basic sleeve, you can modify this in infinite ways! Share your creation – what fabrics will you use? How many touch inputs? What shapes and styles will you add?
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