Url for old forum thread

[SniffTheGlove]

Hi,

I have tried searching but not able to find anything so I don't know if the thread was ever carried over during the migrations.

On the Arduino Playground for the Capacitive Sensor Library
https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/CapacitiveSensor/

There is a link for further discussions to a forum thread.
https://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1227388576/0

Of course that link no longer works, so is there a way to find this thread or was the thread dropped during the older forum transformation to SMF

Thanks

[UKHeliBob]

@SniffTheGlove

I don't know if the thread was ever carried over during the migrations.

It would have been carried over but I don't recognise the url that you posted as one that would have gone to the old forum

What are you trying to do with capacitive sensors ?

[johnwasser]

I found a post from November 2008 that points to that same post:

Clickwheel with Arduino

If you can find a large enough knob for a rotary encoder you could just "embed" the encoder and knob in your box and have the top of the knob flush with the frontpanel of your box. This would of course make the box rather thick which might be just what you want to avoid

I think this is the current location of that post, last updated December 2010:

Re: CapSense Library

Thanks, Paul. I tried the other code you posted earlier for doing the same thing and it worked like a charm. This is cool stuff!

[SniffTheGlove]

I building a simple non-touch proximity sensor.
I currently have capacitor sensing bedside lights but one broke so I thought I could build a smart one that did not need touching for fun.

I was just hoping there was some more details about the library in the project thread.

It's just that on the playground page the author uses different names for the same things, like he uses "sense pin", "sensor pin" and "receive pin" for the same pin. Also he mentions putting in a small capacitor (20 - 400 pF) in parallel with the body capacitance and I am not sure what he means with " parallel with the body" so hoping these things are explain in more detail in the thread.

Thanks for replying

[SniffTheGlove]

Thanks, I shall have a good read.

[in0]

@SniffTheGlove

is there a way to find this thread

You can use the archive.org Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/2016*/https://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1227388576/0
Just open any of the archived snapshots of that URL. It goes through four or five redirects before getting to the actual post, but it does get there if you wait a little while.