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Archive for the 'Prototyping' 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 Sign has a purpose!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

The single character LED sign I had been playing with now has a purpose! Shortly after discarding several ideas of having it as a serial display for PC/Server status, or hooking it up to the internet and a webcam, I came up with an actual useful purpose. The sign can be a clock! [...]

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