Check out this great DIY showing you how to make a Halloween Pumpkin with a capacitive touch sensor to control the glow of the LEDs.  Watch video for a demo! Capacitive proximity sensors work because people are mostly water, and water is a very polar molecule, and is easily turn ...

Who said a 800×600 pixel 7″ digital frame with MP3 and touchscreen isn’t awesome? You control it with the sexy blue LED touch sensor array we mentioned earlier that’s built into the piano black frame – touch the frame and the buttons appear. The buil ...

Here’s some cool quick notes on touch sensors QT113/118 for those of you trying to invent touch enabled systems. I need a touch sensor for a couple of projects, and the Qprox QT113 seems to be the way to go, particularly for interfacing with an Atmel processor. It’s ...