This is a very simple touch sensor switch that is build with the 555 timer IC. You just need to touch the metal plate and the relay gets energised and is kept in this state for about 100 seconds, then ...

Here is a great collection of touch switch circuits. A touch switch is an electronic device that enables us to control a circuit by simply touching a sensor. Simple touch switch circuit with 4011 – ...

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[HankDavis] sent along this link to a video showing a tutorial on how to make touch sensors using a “darlington pair”. In the video we are taken through the idea and how we’re going to construct it.

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Scientists at the Technical University Munich have developed a robot with a sensitive "skin"-- groupings of hexagonal sensors that ...

A water-tolerant design offers a higher level of safety in white-goods applications, and it's cost-effective to boot. Capacitive touch sensors have made homes i n scores of MP3 players and mobile ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In other words, Apple has patents to two of the biggest features that are rumored to appear on the next iPhone.

The touch sensors on smartphones and tablet computers allow people to sling angry birds across the screen or scroll through pages of cat pictures with a gentle finger swipe. To detect a user’s touch, ...