justDIY Project Log

Thoughts, ideas, projects, pictures.
 
 
 

Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.

Archive for the 'Interface' Category

Capacitive Sensing Continued

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Hello readers from MAKE: as well as all other readers :)
My prototype touch sensor worked so well, that it hasn’t needed much changing. I sent the design off to Custom PCB, and less than a week later, I had a pile of circuit boards waiting for me.

I changed the layout around a little, mostly [...]

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Capacitive touch sensing

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Presenting “6buttons”; a simple six button keypad based on the QProx QT160 charge transfer proximity sensor chip.
More details to come later, wanted to get some pictures and video online tonight.

simple schematic - i plan a “backpack” pcb which will provide some visual feedback, a clicking noise and translate the six outputs into an i2c bus [...]

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LED Clock; Firmware taking shape

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

The firmware for my LED Sign / Clock project is taking shape.  I’ve worked out my initial wishlist of features, and put together a basic menu structure.  I figured a menu is the  easiest way to access a lot of options, while only relying on two buttons.
The basic menu consists of options for setting the [...]

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