Hello everyone! … yesterday I was lucky enough to come across a shop that sells medical insoles where I’ve found out some ideal stuff to use with our beloved device.
In particular, I was intrigued by a mechanical feature of some blister patches (originally designed to relieve foot blister pain). They firmly adhere on several kind of surfaces, paper included 
. You also will be surprised to find that they are great for shocking or crawling, squeezing, tickling… easily removable, reusable and sterilizable… so that you can take advantage of the full morph area with or without the use of the Innovator’s overlay.
Given the technology underlying the stickiness (nanoparticles) you can even add more levels of sliders, even within the standard overlays provided by Sensel … they do not tear off any piece of material and do not need glue sticks at all. As a plus, their transparency is functional enough to clearly read the labels you want to prototype.
I then enjoyed looking for alternative shapes, buying objects of the same material that were available at a common bazaar nearby … (Cake Decorating Moulds, Pad Insulation Boards, Memory Foam Insoles, some other quite unusual stuff , professional casting resin and custom soft shapes kits ).
With great excitement, I noticed that some of the non-slip mats designed to hold a navigator or mobile phone on the dashboard are sticky on both sides: this fact helped me to conceive the possibility of emulating the official Sensel overlays without the need to involve magnets neither tape.
I hope this method will lead to new techniques of replacing entire layouts on the fly once on stage.
This layout has been made to allow maximum versatility as it comprehends all 96 touch area (they are rapidly editable by selecting all buttons inside the editor and easily change their shared values). My goal was: create for an hybrid & experimental approach to both percussive/bending/sliding elements of play.
It is a 16x6 nested grid, ready to play a set of 6 octaves: there are 24 semitones per row.
4 of the right-most semitones are equivalent to the 4 left-most semitones on the adiacent upper row.
Once printed, it would help to later position various objects of your preference (I did accommodate 64 finger-patches) such as those that can be viewed in the below pics.
Recipes 
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with paper custom overlay of your sensel.map
_ place on morph your first layer: a both-sides-active-gel pad (230mm length, 130 mm width)
_ place your printed sensel.map on top of the first layer
_ (optional) add any layer of a single-side shape of your preference -
without paper custom overlay
_ place any layer of a single-side-active-gel shape of your preference on top of the bare surface of the sensor area
_ (optional) add any layer of a single-side shape of your preference -
with Innovator’s overlay
_ place your printed sensel.map below the overlay
_ place any layer of a single-side-active-gel shape of your preference above it -
with official overlays
_ just place any layer of a single-side-active-gel shape of your preference above it
Enjoy!
Thank you Sensel & thank you community for steadily give nice hints. I find this forum to be as true power for everybody’s imagination, you are great!
