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How to Use Capacitive Touch Sensing with Arduino (Lesson #42)

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Learn how to use the built-in capacitive touch sensing capability on the Arduino Uno R4 Minima and R4 WiFi. Example code available here: https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/uno-r4-wifi/touch/

0:00 introduction
0:42 circuit
1:24 board compatibility
1:44 example code
4:18 serial output and threshold calibration
6:14 adding an LED
7:56 using fruit (or something else)
8:38 analog instead of digital

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