Tag: e-broidery
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Today – Adding a board dedicated for detecting touches.
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,…
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Today – Swatchbook vs Wearability
The day I honed in on whether to make “swatch book” or something wearable that you might use in experiments.
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Enter the ESP32 & Bluetooth
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…
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Today – Basics of Capacitive Touch
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…
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Today in e-broidery
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…
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First Stitches
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…
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Embroidery Experiments
Wearable targets is the reason for the season. See swatch book. Swatchbook Pt 2 Great background on e-broidery;