Cool Touch notes – Quick Note on Touch Sensors — QT113/118

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 easy to work with, and hooks-up with only a bare minimum of extra stuff. All you need is a resistor and capacitor and a bit of wire or trace to compose the sensor.

Tom Igoe documents most of the details here.

There’s one wrinkle in my project, and that’s figuring out what value I should use for the capacitor — which is basically what controls the sensor’s, you know..sensitivity. So, I tried to values, .01uF and .1uF, to find out what the thing means by “touch.” (I’m looking at something that is more ambient than a full-on, bone-jarring style touch — something closer to “nearby”.)

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One Response to Cool Touch notes – Quick Note on Touch Sensors — QT113/118

1. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 28, 2007 at 1:26 pm

   cool… but what can i use it on…