Double-sided Touch Sensor Features
There is a wide variety of touch sensors. One of these sensors is double-sided touch sensor with 3-pin and 4-pin interface on each side. Pin N in 4-pin interface is not used.
Note
Pin S is always HIGH and changes to LOW if the switch is touched. (If not touched, it will be HIGH again.)
Double-sided Touch Sensor Pinout
This Module has 3 main pins:
- VCC: Module power supply – 3.3/ 5 V
- GND: Ground
- S: Sensor output (5V)
- N: Not used
You can see the pinout of this module on the first side in the image below.
You can see the pinout of this module on the other side in the image below.
Required Materials
Hardware Components
Software Apps
Interfacing Double-sided Touch Sensor with Arduino
Step 1: Circuit
The following circuit shows how you should connect Arduino to this sensor. Connect wires accordingly.
Step 2: Code
Upload the following code to Arduino.
/*
Double-Sided-Touch-Sensor
made on 18 oct 2020
by Amir Mohammad Shojaee @ Electropeak
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*/
const int TouchPin=2;
void setup() {
pinMode(TouchPin, INPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
int sensorValue = digitalRead(TouchPin);
if(sensorValue==LOW)
{
Serial.println("touched");
delay(1000);
}
else
{
Serial.println("no touched");
delay(1000);
}
}
The output is “no touched” when the sensor is not yet touched, and when it is touched output is “touched“.
The code output is as follows. As you can see, the sensor is on for 3 seconds.
