Touch Me! Open Universal Input Sleeve {OUIS}

I love fabric!

I really love conductive fabric, so if you've never used conductive fabric, I hope you sew this and follow my Instructable.

Conductive fabric is a fabric that conducts electricity. Typically there are metal strands woven into the fabric, or the metal strands might be woven with other fabrics, such as polyester. Making e-textiles, wearables, and soft circuits often use conductive fabrics for a variety of projects. [Conductive fabrics from Tinkertailor.tech]

Why do you need the sleeve?

Using this sleeve, in any configuration can provide inputs for your electronic projects. You can connect it to any circuit board and - use it for touch input (native on an ESP32 board, for example), adding touch capabilities to any project. If your microprocessor board doesn't have native touch capability, you can use a touch library (ADCTouch, I'll provide a code example at the end of this guide) to add this to an Arduino-based board.

Once you've followed along to create a basic sleeve, you can modify this in infinite ways! Share your creation - what fabrics will you use? How many touch inputs? What shapes and styles will you add?