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Capacitive Touch Sensing Moves from Exotic to Everyday

This article describes the development of touch sensing and switching techniques capacitive sensing technology. Products cited include both stand-alone capacitive sensing controller ICs and microcontrollers (MCUs) that include touch sensing as a peripheral function. Capacitive touch sensing has experienced explosive growth to become the default human interface for several classes of consumer product. Users of

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Engadino

This project is named “Engadino” after Engadin – ski resort in Switzerland. The reason for this is that I live in Switzerland, I like skiing and the name is easy to remember and pronounce. By itself the project is a clone of “Pinguino“. “Pinguino is an Arduino-like electronics prototyping platform. It supports different 8- and 32-bit ©Microchip

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How-To: Diodes

If you have embarked upon electronics projects in the past, there is a good chance you have already encountered this common component and soldered into your circuit without second thought. Diodes are valuable in electronics and serve a variety of purposes, which will be highlighted in upcoming steps. First, what is a diode? A diode is a

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