Knit Touchpad

Step 2 Preparing touchpad surface

For demonstration purposes I wanted to get the largest rectangle possible out of the glove and cut this from the palm section. I cut it so that the knit does not run diagonally, but from side to side and from top to bottom.
To mount this piece of knit, which likes to roll up on itself, I cut a piece of cardboard, about 2cm larger than the knit all around and mounted it on some strips of squishy double-sided sticky tape. The reason I chose to use squishy tape was only because it was the only kind I had that day, but I also thought it could be nice than a hard surface and to some extent the surface is even pressure sensitive, since the harder one presses, the better the electrical connection becomes. Increasing electricity flow equally to all measuring points.
Before sticking the knit to the tape I connected 4 wires to the corners of the cardboard by stripping their ends and simply fastening them down underneath a small corner of copper tape that has conductive adhesive.