Justin Geeslin

Tag: e-broidery

  • Today – Adding a board dedicated for detecting touches.

    Today – Adding a board dedicated for detecting touches.

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    I have my new chip for detecting capacitive touch and it is working on new jog wheel swatch! I’m trying to make this very modular so I can swap out widgets/swatches and micros too. There’s a mixture of metal and conductive thread. The I2C stuff does best over metal and everything else can be thread.Also,…

  • Today – Swatchbook vs Wearability

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    The day I honed in on whether to make “swatch book” or something wearable that you might use in experiments.

  • Enter the ESP32 & Bluetooth

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    I bought the extra hardware for single port capacitive touch.As a hub to my swatch book, I need a BLE device / game controller.( Unplugging the stethoscope… for now. ) Right away I’m having trouble connecting to the RedBoard. I’m going to factory reset it and see if that helps. Here’s the command I used:python…

  • Today – Basics of Capacitive Touch

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    Reading some basics on capacitive touch.Introduction to Capacitive Touch Sensing – Technical Articles Thus, the only way to effectively deal with low-frequency noise is to be adaptable: The threshold used to identify the presence of a finger can’t be a fixed value. Instead, it should be regularly adjusted based on measured values that do not…

  • Today in e-broidery

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    One touch point seems to be working. I’m not positive this is capacitive touch, but I don’t really mind that. I get how this works. I’m not sure without the capactive touch library I could have a single … yeah actually I probably could do it w/o the library, not as capacitive touch, but just…

  • First Stitches

    First Stitches

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    What about active embroidery? Or an active fabric display?Never been done. Start with embroidery and make a thumb point and how the thumb point feels might signal whether its a button or menu or keyboard or slider. Good tutorial on embroider capacitive sensorsYouTube Tutorial on EmbroideringYouTube Got some stitches made today. My first! And I’m…

  • Embroidery Experiments

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    Wearable targets is the reason for the season. See swatch book. Swatchbook Pt 2 Great background on e-broidery;