What do you guys think? The pads are on the board, so you don't have to use an external pad. I lined them up like that so that they can be used like a slider.
They work, but I want to clean the software up a bit. It uses the downloadable CapSense Arduino library at Arduino Playground - HomePage
Features include:
Eight CapSense pads for button or slider input
Eight LEDs for testing of each pad
Eight TTL output ports for control of external devices
Audio jack for square wave synthesizer output
What do you guys think? The pads are on the board, so you don't have to use an external pad. I lined them up like that so that they can be used like a slider.
I have to say I'm not such a fan of all these input device shields, unless you are just prototyping you would not want something on the arduino.
I like the idea just not convinced by shields.
I have to say that I am going rather off shields now. They are good if you want to fiddle and make a number of things non-permenantly but I have done too much of this and I need to make more of my projects permanent with cheap, much smaller derivative arduino compatible boards.
Thanks for your comments. I agree, the Arduino is great for quick prototyping. That's what this shield is for, prototyping uC-based CapSense for proof of concept and for playing around with it.
That's neat. I had gotten the impression that capsense was pickier about short and "shielded" traces leading to the actual sensor parts (to the point where I didn't think it would work on a shield at all.) It is nice to know that that impression was wrong!