Bare Conductive Capacitive Sensor

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.

Bare conductive capacitive sensor.

In these boards each electrode acts as a capacitive sensor. Depending on how thick you apply the paint it takes about 15 minutes to dry. At bare conductive we use capacitive sensing in our hardware such as the touch board pi cap and light up board. 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.

Discover how to set up the touch board with the arduino. These targets have a greater capacitance and a targets dielectric strength is immaterial. Conductive targets include metal water blood acids bases and salt water. 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.

The closer you get the higher the voltage it sends out. You can make make a simple capacitance sensor using a pad of electric paint an arduino and a resistor. The paint is a great solution if you want to quickly connect your electronic components together or draw your own creative interface. Electric paint is a water based paint that conducts electricity.

There are two categories of targets that capacitive sensors can detect the first being conductive and the second is non conductive. Set up the touch board with the arduino ide. Use the grapher to visualise the sensitivity and precision of the touch board s capacitive sensors. At bare conductive we focus on making scalable smart surfaces and capacitive sensing is a foundational part of that vision.

How to set up the pi cap with a raspberry pi. Ensure that bare conductive touch board is selected under tools board and that the correct serial cu port is selected under tools port. The touch sensor is a powerful capacitive proximity sensor that sends a signal to the attached bits as you physically approach it.