Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

A lot of consumer gadgets use touch sensors now. It is a cheap and reliable way to replace a variety of knobs and switches on everything from headphones to automobiles. However, creating a custom ...

Initially, said DMC, the partnership will focus on producing commercial solutions for manufacturing, logistic centres and factories, using Arduino’s Opta PLC (pictured) and Portenta Machine Controller ...

Computer scientists at Saarland University have developed sensor ‘stickers’ which transform the human body into a multi-touch surface, and can be produced with “little effort”. According to the ...

Microchip has introduced a touch controller family for ‘knob-on-display’ (KoD) human-machine interfaces. These interfaces add a physical ‘clicky’ knob to the front of a display without traditional ...