Arduino capacitive sensor: Cap-Pad

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Cap-Pad (shortening of Capacitive Pad) is a prototype based on the use of capacitive sensors made from aluminium foil.

CapPad-1-LowRes

Cap-Pad uses an Arduino Uno and it provides six rotary potentiometers and eleven touch sensors. Cap-Pad can be used as a serial controller for Pure Data, Max / MSP, Processing and any other program and environment able to receive the serial messages sent from the Arduino board.

CapPad-3-LowRes

This video shows Cap-Pad in action.

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