Turn a Pencil Drawing Into a Capacitive Sensor

Arduino Technology
Turn a Pencil Drawing Into a Capacitive Sensor

Alan Chatham of Unojoy wrote an Instructable on using pencil drawings as capacitive sensors:

Did you know? You can make pencil drawings reactive to touch for use with your projects! It’s really easy, and gives you a lot of flexibility in making interfaces for whatever microcontroller project you’re making.

Making a capacitive touch sensor from a drawing via Arduino

4 thoughts on “Turn a Pencil Drawing Into a Capacitive Sensor

  1. STEM TECH 2012 says:

    Reblogged this on STEM – ROBOTICS EDUCATION.

  2. Daniel says:

    This is cool. I first saw this on the makey-makey site. Really cool to be able to build your own interfaces using pencil and paper!

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