[inline-left:agile2.jpg]This sensor uses a conductor on either side of the
fabric instead of an interdigitated pair of conductors at the base. The base conductor is a series of overlapped adhesive
copper strips. They form a single conductor because the adhesive itself is a conductive acrylic.

The top conductor is a copper coated nylon fabric. The
advantage these fabric and tape materials offer is that the sensor can be scaled
in either direction simply by cutting more tape or cutting larger
pieces out of the base fabric stock. Wires can be soldered
directly to the copper tape and with some care even to the
copper fabric.

Many interesting variants of this design are possible by
substituting the copper tape with conductive fabric and using
conductive and insulating thread for adhesion.

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