How to Embroider with Circuits and Conductive Thread -- Episode 610

Has anyone released an embroidery pattern for the Bayeux tapestry yet ? You could perhaps create an interactive one

I noticed on the Grove water level sensor they use two ATtiny 1616 microcontrollers to convert the QTouch inputs to I2C to expand the number of capacitive sense channels to the host controller. I'm guessing that this could give you the option for tuning the touch behaviour whilst allowing you to have a scalable design - each I2C slave has up to 12 touch channels or a 6x6 matrix.

I'm guessing that one problem with these designs is how to keep them clean. If you are going to encourage interaction then they are likely to get grubby pretty quickly and then you have the issue of what is washable and what isn't and how to reliably allow separation.

Otherwise you could create something like 'my first calculator' as a soft toy with conductive thread touch buttons and LED sequins.

Wow, the bayeux tapestry would be quite a project!
The first calculator would be a cool idea.

Wow, the bayeux tapestry would be quite a project!
The first calculator would be a cool idea.