Most sensing applications of e-textiles use switching, piezoresistivity or optics for direct touch sensing. This instructable shows you how to start exploring another approach - capacitive sensing to measure touch and proximity. It is based on the easy-to-use, cheap capacitance sensing chip evaluation board from Atmel/Qtouch and takes only minutes to create.

Steps
Identify the plates where the capacitance is measured. Notice the thin conductive PCB trace between each larger plate. <img src="http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/system/files/attachments/fabricProximity1.jpg">
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