A touch sensor pad is used in conjunction with the PICAXE 'touch' commands to determine when a finger has touched the sensor. These can be used to create the equivalent of non-mechanical push switches.
Touch Sensor
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Reading a touch sensor
This program will read a touch sensor connected to input pin C.0 and report the value read in the 'b1' variable.
- Code Example:
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main: touch C.0, b1 ; Read the touch sensor value debug ; Display the value pause 1000 ; Wait a while goto main ; Repeat
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Touch the coloured dot to activate the touch sensor.
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