Grove - Touch Sensor

Grove - Touch Sensor enables you to replace press with touch. It can detect the change in capacitance when a finger is near by. That means no matter your finger directly touches the pad or just stays close to the pad, Grove - Touch Sensor would outputs HIGH also.

Specifications

Operating Voltage: 2.0 - 5.5V
Operating Current(Vcc=3V):1.5 - 3.0μA
Operating Current(VDD=3V):3.5 - 7.0μA
Output Response Time: 60 - 220mS
Used Chipset: TTP223-BA6

**Option features**
AHLB	TOG	LPMB	MOTB	SLRFTB	RST	Q	OPDO
Output Active High / Low	Toggle mode	Power Mode	Max. On Time	Sampling length	RESET PIN	CMOS Output	Open Drain Mode
V	V	0	1	1	X	V	X
Active High	Disabled	LOW	Infinite	1.6 msec	N/A	Present	N/A

Demonstration

With Arduino

This demo is going to show you how to turn on/off an LED.
Demo Code:

const int TouchPin=9;
const int ledPin=12;
void setup() {
pinMode(TouchPin, INPUT);
pinMode(ledPin,OUTPUT);
} 
 
void loop() {
int sensorValue = digitalRead(TouchPin);
if(sensorValue==1)
{
digitalWrite(ledPin,HIGH);
}
else
{
digitalWrite(ledPin,LOW);
}
}

With Raspberry Pi

1.You should have got a raspberry pi and a grovepi or grovepi+.
2.You should have completed configuring the development enviroment, otherwise follow here.
3.Connection

Plug the sensor to grovepi socket D4 by using a grove cable.

4.Navigate to the demos' directory:

   cd yourpath/GrovePi/Software/Python/

To see the code

   nano grove_touch_sensor.py   # "Ctrl+x" to exit #

import time
import grovepi

# Connect the Grove Touch Sensor to digital port D4
# SIG,NC,VCC,GND
touch_sensor = 4

grovepi.pinMode(touch_sensor,"INPUT")

while True:
    try:
        print grovepi.digitalRead(touch_sensor)
        time.sleep(.5)

    except IOError:
        print "Error"

5.Run the demo.

   sudo python grove_touch_sensor.py

Grove - Touch Sensor

Specifications

Demonstration

With Arduino

With Raspberry Pi

Resources

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