Capacitive touch interfaces have become increasingly popular for button and slider interfaces used for input control. The performance of a slider or button under changing environmental conditions is ...

Capacitive touch sensors are fast becoming an integral part of many electronic goods these days. Made popular by products like the Apple iPod adopting it, capacitive sensors have now become the ...

Creating capacitive touch-sensitive buttons is easy these days; many microcontrollers have cap-sense hardware built-in. This will work for simple on/off control, but what if you want a linear, ...

In the last Sensor Sense we looked at capacitive touch switches used for on/off control. But these switches are also found in capacitive touch sliders that can control various levels, such as volume ...

Most modern laptops have some sort of volume control buttons. Usually these are a set of Fn keys on the keyboard, but convertible laptops with screens that can flip around for use in tablet mode often ...

The ARL capacitive touch switch from CIT Relay & Switch offers embedded capacitive touch slider functionality with multiple options and appearances. The ARL capacitive touch switch from CIT Relay & ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...