Midas is exploring how to support designers in rapidly creating and iterating on interaction ideas for objects. We are moving increasingly towards a world where we can print any object we dream of in any material we like, and electronics and circuits should be no exception. By using some sheets of copper foil and vinyl along with a vinyl cutter and an Arduino, the interface and components contained in this repository permits a person to create capacitive touch sensors in any desired shape and affix them to any object. The "capturing" interface then allows them to "program" an action on the computer by demonstrating it, which will then be parroted back on the assigned trigger.
You can check out a video summarizing the system on YouTube:
The code for generating touch sensors is created in Processing, and can be found in codez/Midas. To get SVGs out, the code uses InkScape. You'll have to tell the Processing code where to find it.
For controlling the touch sensor board, there is Arduino code in codez/mpr_121.
You'll need an Arduino or Teensyduino IDE for installing the code onto the board you're using.
This code was written as a part of my PhD, and thus it can be sketchy in some places! It's not very well documented, but I wanted to provide it on github for anyone curious about spelunking through it and hopefully making use of it in some way.