A touch sensor, especially a capacitive touch sensor, has some surprisingly sophisticated electronics to detect a fingertip. Luckily, little capacitive touch sensor/switch modules are widely available ...

A recent ACM paper shows how just about any capacitive sensor can work as a multitouch sensor with nothing more than an Arduino although a PC running processing interprets the data for higher ...

Capacitive sensing libraries for the Arduino and just about every other microcontroller platform have been around for ages now, but if you’d like to put a slightly complex cap sense pad in a … ...

Miss Part I? Click here In Part I of this series, we explored the differences between user interfaces based on mechanical buttons and those utilizing capacitive touch sensors. In Step 1 we discussed ...

Infineon has introduced automotive microcontrollers with capacitive touch sensing for sensor and actuator applications. The PSOC 4 HVMS family is built around a 24 or 48MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, ...

Capacitive sensing isn't limited to your smartphone. In fact, you can use contact with human skin (or any other conductive surface) to trigger almost any circuit. And the Touch Board from Bare ...

Touchstone Semiconductor's Martin Tomasz explains how to interfact to capacitive touch sensors using basic 555-timer circuits.

At Maker Faire recently, Gizmag's Eric Mack got to check out the Touch Board, which turns any conductive material, including the firm's own conductive electric paint, into a potential capacitive ...

Capacitive touch-sensing technology is best known for its use in touchscreens, but one modder used CapSense for a homemade game controller.