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Arduino #24

Closed redchillipadi closed 2 years ago

redchillipadi commented 2 years ago

Proof of concept for an Arduino based capacitive sensor.

Connect pins D2 and D3 from the arduino to opposite ends of a 10 MOhm resistor on breadboard Wrap a piece of foil in glad wrap and put one end of a dupont wire through it (so it touches the aluminium), and the other end connecting to the 10 MOhm resistor (on the pin 3 side)

Use the library at https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/capacitivesensor/

redchillipadi commented 2 years ago

This is a step towards creating a prototype of a capacitive sensor (Issue #3) but does not close it yet, until an FPGA version has been written and tested

dknathalage commented 2 years ago

This is great work @redchillipadi. I have found this repository that achieves something similar to our goal https://github.com/stnolting/captouch. We will be able to utilise some of the code in there. I will perform more research and testing on circuit design for the capacitive sensor.

There is a great how-to guide in that repository. We can use that as a starting point for our sprint 2. I will continue circuit research and extend the touch functionality to proximity functionality.