Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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Instead of using wires and push buttons for something likr the FX board, is there a way to use conductive thread with Uno and a breadboard to represent the push buttons?

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Re: Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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You could connect your conductive threads to a capacitive touch sensor and relay the touch events via the UNO to the FX board.
https://www.adafruit.com/products/1982

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So if I understand correctly, I would solder one side to the breadboard and the ports (0-11) I could loop conductive thread through it and place it where needed?

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Re: Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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Actually, this version would be simpler to use, since you would not need an UNO in the middle and you would not need to do any programming:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1362

You would connect your threads to the input side and solder connections from the output side to the FX trigger pins.

The holes on the breadboard are a bit small for attaching conductive thread directly. Another option is to solder some loops of wire to the inputs and tie your conductive thread to those.

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Re: Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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I believe I'm starting to understand now. Thanks for all your help but I have one last question. So if I wanted 15 outputs using conductive thread would I need 3 FX boards and 3 of the standalone 5 and follow the same procedure for each of them?

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Re: Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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Each FX board has 11 triggers. You could do 15 sounds with 2 FX boards and 3 of the 5-channel standalone capacitive touch boards.

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Re: Conductive Thread and a Breadboard

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Cool! I'll buy the pieces and get started! Sorry for all the questions lol but I really appreciate your help!

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