Bare Conductive Capacitive Sensor

Discover how to set up the touch board with the arduino.

Bare conductive capacitive sensor.

Ensure that bare conductive touch board is selected under tools board and that the correct serial cu port is selected under tools port. At bare conductive we use capacitive sensing in our hardware such as the touch board pi cap and light up board. Depending on how thick you apply the paint it takes about 15 minutes to dry. You can make make a simple capacitance sensor using a pad of electric paint an arduino and a resistor.

The touch sensor is a powerful capacitive proximity sensor that sends a signal to the attached bits as you physically approach it. Set up the touch board with the arduino ide. When correctly constructed this sensor can detect the presence of a person from up to 300 mm and can work behind any non conductive material such as glass wood plastic etc. Bare conductive is a design and technology company producing an electrically conductive paint capacitive sensor hardware and a range of kits for making everything from interactive walls to musical instruments.

In an electrical circuit you often find a resistor and a capacitor the resistor is a passive element in the circuit and the capacitor an active one. At bare conductive we focus on making scalable smart surfaces and capacitive sensing is a foundational part of that vision. The closer you get the higher the voltage it sends out. There are two categories of targets that capacitive sensors can detect the first being conductive and the second is non conductive.

Make a capacitive sensor for arduino capacitive sensing is a great way to create touch and distance sensing interfaces that are low cost and that. Electric paint is a water based paint that conducts electricity. Starting with our electric paint bare conductive has created tools which make prototyping smart surfaces easy from the very beginning our customers have used electric paint to create capacitive sensing on a diverse array of surfaces for an equally diverse set of use cases. Step 1 electric paint.

Conductive targets include metal water blood acids bases and salt water. In these boards each electrode acts as a capacitive sensor. Use the grapher to visualise the sensitivity and precision of the touch board s capacitive sensors.