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Capacitive Touch Sensor

I am trying to make a capacitive touch sensor!


First, on the Uno...


The Capacitive Sensor documentation didn't help as much as I needed it to, because it exclusively uses a Teensy in their example. I found another tutorial from a site called Bare Conductive just to get the simple switch working.


And it worked!



I made the capacitive switch from a strand of solder



And now I have the LEDs set up to turn on when the sensor is activated



Time to send this to the ATTiny!


Ok I sent it to the Tiny, but I'm having an issue with Serial communication coming out of the Tiny, so the LED is not activating... a problem for tomorrow.


Ok I switched the LED pin to pin 0 on the ATTiny (one of the PWM pins), and it works!




And now I have two LEDs in parallel...


yay!

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