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'-Before committing to create the fabric electrode, I tried out some materials to make sure it would work. I hooked up some conductive fabric to my original circuit (worked just fine). I also replaced the electrode with a spool of conductive thread. This worked enough to convince me that knitting a piece out of the thread might work.

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Before committing to create the fabric electrode, I tried out some materials to make sure it would work. I hooked up some conductive fabric to my original circuit (worked just fine). I also replaced the electrode with a spool of conductive thread. This worked enough to convince me that knitting a piece out of the thread might work.

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'-Miraculously, the original leftover circuit from sensors class worked pretty well with my knitted electrode. The LED starts turning on when my hand is about 1.5" from the electrode.-"

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Miraculously, the original leftover circuit from sensors class worked pretty well with my knitted electrode. The LED starts turning on when my hand is about 1.5" from the electrode.

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'-Before committing to create the fabric electrode, I tried out some materials to make sure it would work. I hooked up some conductive fabric to my original circuit (worked just fine). I also replaced the electrode with a spool of conductive thread. This worked enough to convince me that knitting a piece out of the thread might work.

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I wanted a thickly knit piece of material, so I started with trying to knit two 4-ply conductive yarns together in a stockinette stitch. For some reason, the knitting machine kept on jamming. I ended up making a piece of about 4'x4'. I had a bit of trouble binding off the material from the machine and ended up sewing up the cast-off end to prevent unraveling. I then steam-ironed the material to flatten it.

'-Miraculously, the original leftover circuit from sensors class worked pretty well with my knitted electrode. The LED starts turning on when my hand is about 1.5" from the electrode.-"

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Soft Electrodes for Capacitive Sensing - Xiao Xiao

Motivation So far in class, almost all of the sensors that we've played with have been resistivity-based. In a recent lab for another class, I built a simple circuit for capacity proximity sensing with a metal plate electrode. I was interested in seeing what would happen if I substituted the metal electrode with soft materials.

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