Closed jonnew closed 1 month ago
Some measurements of GND referenced capacitance at on the V1.1 PCB
1 kHz | |
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LED Button | 14 pF |
Left Turn | 51 pF |
Right Turn | 45 pF |
Enable/Disable | 42 pF |
This is right at the limit for the chip suggested above:
Might be work decreasing this bit (e.g. by mesh filling the copper islands of the big buttons with ~50 fill density)
Thanks for taking those measurements, I'll try the 50% mesh fill. That's also suggested by: Capacitive-Touch-Sensor-Design-Guide-DS00002934-B.pdf
Nice, that guide is cool.
Both the Teensy LC and 3.2 are end of lifed. We will need to migrate to a different microcontroller option. Most MCUs don't come with integrated capacitive touch sensing. Additionally it has proven to be quite a difficult thing to get working reliably. However, it reducing design complexity and is appropriate for environments with animals. An option would be switching to some relatively generic MCU, e.g. RP2040 and adding an external cap sensor that hopefully takes care of the calibration issues for us. @aacuevas suggests the following:
Microchip seems to have a family of those, which is a good thing for future-proofing. And it's a bit under a dollar and a half. In any case, it will need to be tested.