A touch sensor, especially a capacitive touch sensor ... BSF chips, that means chips with 2-wire serial output (not I²C) interface. At the serial output interface mode the SDO pin is data output pin, ...

A lot of consumer gadgets use touch sensors now. It is a cheap and reliable way to replace a variety of knobs and switches on everything from headphones to automobiles. However, creating a custom t… ...

Ever thought of using touch sensors on your projects but didn’t because it would be too much work? [Paul Stoffregen] proves that it can be pretty easy if you use the CapSense library for Ardu… ...

At the heart is an Arduino compatible microcontroller (based on the Leonardo) with a few extras baked in, including a Freescale touch sensor connected to 12 electrodes and an audio processor for ...

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 the look and feel of a ...

Bare Conductive raised over US$200,000 on Kickstarter last year for an Arduino-based project called Touch Board that turns ... a custom chip that allows the Touch Board to act as a capacitive sensor.

Capacitive sensors are found in a wide range of equipment, from consumer electronics to industrial/process control. Touch buttons are increasingly found in lamps and dimmers. Motion detectors can ...

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, ...

Smartphones utilize the capacitive touch-sensing technology to interact with human skin by even slightest touch, and one gamer wanted to apply the same tech to a game controller.