Paper Prototyping
Sewing a full smart pillow can take time, especially if you are using a lot of handwork like embroidering. It is recommended that you work out where you would like your touch sensitive electrodes to be placed and then make sure you have the code working as you would like before you start sewing. It can save you time and frustration.
Work out where you would like the electrodes to be placed and which pin you want to connect to them. Place a piece of copper tape on the paper for each electrode - this is where you will put your conductive fabric electrode on your fabric pillowcase.
The glue on the backside of copper tapes tends to pass electricity, so you can usually get away with using another piece of copper tape to connect together the copper tape on the paper with your snap-wire connectors on your board.
This step is very important. Make sure your idea of how your pillow will work actually does work! You can use the 'all-gestures-example.ino' sketch as a starting point. More details instructions are on the Touch Gestures page.
