Fabricademy Skin Electronics

Sensors

Conductive thread

As capacitive sensor using the Capacitive Sensor Arduino Library

Adhesive copper

As circuitry or capacitive sensing.

Conductive fabric

As circuitry or capacitive sensing.

Conductive ink

As capacitive sensor

Other sensors

  • LDR
  • Ultrasonic
  • Etc…

Big sensor list

Actuators

Neopixels

Adafruit neopixel Uberguide
Adafruit Neopixel Arduino Library

Single color SMD leds.

Buzzer

Documentation

Vibration motors

Microcontroler

ESP32 feather

You can find the documentation here

Atinny85

Power

Coin 3v battery

Rechargable 3.7v LiPo battery

Extras:

  • Kapton tape
  • Vinyl
  • Conductive Ink
  • Wires
  • Solder Iron

Software

Arduino IDE

General Arduino Language Reference

Leran how to install libraries on Arduino IDE v1 or Arduino IDE V2

Steps needed to be able to program Atinny with Arduino IDE can be found in the Attiny boards for arduino tutorial.

Libraries

Arduino Tone function to generate sounds with a buzzer.

Other

Unordered interesting links related to skin electronics

Stretch-Sensing Soft Glove
HairIO: Hair As Interactive Material
Touche for Arduino: Advanced Touch Sensing
Flex SKIN SENSOR
Skin Multisensory Platform for Simultaneous Environmental Monitoring paper
Ear Plug to detect facial gesture

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