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Unlike many modern microcontrollers, RP2040 doesn’t come with a native capacitive touch peripheral. This doesn’t mean you can’t do it – the usual software-driven way works wonderfully, and only requires …read more Continue reading Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs
The kalimba, or thumb piano, is an easy way to make some music even if you have next to no idea what you’re doing. The only real downside is that …read more Continue reading Thumbs Up To This Pico MIDI Kalimba
In the catalogue of the Chinese parts supplier LCSC can be found many parts not available from American or European suppliers, and thus anyone who wants to evaluate them can …read more Continue reading Get To Know Touch With This Dev Board
You can buy small modules with capacitive touch detection ICs — most often it’s the TTP223, a single-button capacitive model with configurable output modes. These are designed to pair with …read more Continue reading TTP223 Brings Simple Touch Controls to a LED Lamp
[Hal Rodriguez] and [Sahrye Cohen] of Amped Atelier focus on creating interactive wearable garments with some fairly high standards. Every garment must be pretty, and has to either be controllable …read more Continue reading REMOTICON 2021 // Hal Rodriguez and Sahrye Cohen Combine Couture and Circuitry
Most projects that interface with the real world need some sort of input device. Obviously this article is being written from a standardized “human interface device” but when the computers …read more Continue reading Capacitive Touch Controller for FPGAs
Those tiny switches inside your mouse may be rated for 50 million clicks or more, but your fingers will likely wear out much sooner than that. Trust us — mouse …read more Continue reading Capacitive Mouse Built for a Friend Makes for a Touching Tale
There are only so many ways to make noise on standard instruments such as acoustic pianos. Their rigidity and inputs just don’t allow for a super-wide range of expression. On …read more Continue reading MIT’s Knitted Keyboard is Quite a Flexible MIDI Controller
Older readers may remember the Stylophone, a small battery powered electric organ using conductive PCB pads and a stylus to create notes. The simple multivibrators in those instruments made them …read more Continue reading Polyphony On A Tiny Scale
[Bertrand Fan] is not a fan of the tiny, hard-to-actuate button on the average Yubikey. Before all that is 2020 occurred, [Bert] had the little 2FA nano-donglette plugged into a spare USB port on the side of their laptop so that it was always available wherever the laptop traveled. Now …read more