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 June, 2007

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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Random picture

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I found this digging around some old forgotten directories on my web server.  It appears to be four dimly lit RGB leds.

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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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