What is the Touch Board?
We’ve worked hard to pack the Touch Board with awesome features:
- Touch sensing – The world is your interface!
- Distance sensing – You don’t need to touch your sensors to use them!
- No programming required – Unless you want to!
- Arduino-compatible – Easy to program and works with popular shields
- Works great with Electric Paint – Or any other conductive material
- MP3 Player / MIDI device – Make a symphony of sounds!
- MicroSD card socket – Change the sounds just by changing the card
- Standard 3.5mm audio jack – Works with headphones and speakers
- Lithium Polymer (LiPo) – Stand alone projects that recharge via USB
- HID capable – Turn the Touch Board into a keyboard or mouse
Who is Bare Conductive?
What can I make with the Touch Board?
Using the Touch Board as a touch sensor
Using the Touch Board as a distance sensor
Arduino-compatibility
Do I have to program the Touch Board?
Can I program the Touch Board?
What can I connect to the Touch Board?
Technical specifications
- Arduino compatible (recognised as an Arduino Leonardo in IDE)
- Atmel ATMega32U4 Microprocessor
- Freescale MPR121 dedicated touch interface
- VLSI VS1053B audio processor
- Arduino Shield Compatible (check pins available)
- 32 KB of Flash Memory of which 4 KB is used for bootloader
- 5V operating voltage (automatic voltage selector for USB or battery operation)
- Built in LiPo battery charging with onboard boost circuit for 5V operation
- 16 MHz clock speed
- Can be powered and programmed over USB
- 20 digital I/O pins (3 used for Touch IC and 5 for MP3 IC – can be disabled)
- 7 PWM channels
- 12 analog input channels
- 12 Touch electrodes of which 8 can be configured as extra digital inputs or outputs with PWM capability
- 84mm x 62mm foot print with maximum height of 10mm (audio connector)
- On/Off switch when powered from battery
Touch Board production timeline
- November 2013 – Kickstarter campaign finishes to roaring success, final sign off of production files, development of Touch Board test rig.
- December 2013 – Touch Boards ordered, component purchasing for rewards, completion of Touch Board test rig
- January 2014 – New Years party, packaging design, final code development, testing & validation of initial Touch Boards from production run.
- February 2014 – Receipt of Touch Boards, receipt of packaging, lots of testing and packing, begin order fulfilment
- March 2014 – Sending rewards to our AWESOME backers!
- April 2014 – Amazing projects fill the world.