CapSense 2 Click is a compact add-on board that easily integrates projected capacitive touch into user's applications. This board features the CAP1114, a multi-channel capacitive touch sensor that takes human body capacitance as an input and directly provides the real-time sensor information via the I2C serial interface from Microchip. This board contains capacitive sensing elements, a 7-segment slider, two buttons, and four LED indicators that visually detect the activation on some of these parts. This Click board™ offers reliable and accurate sensing for any application that uses capacitive touch sensing functions.

CapSense 2 Click is supported by a mikroSDK compliant library, which includes functions that simplify software development.

CapSense 2 Click as its foundation uses the CAP1114, a multi-channel capacitive touch sensor from Microchip. The CAP1114 takes human body capacitance as an input and directly provides real-time sensor information via a serial interface. It also comes with programmable sensitivity for touch buttons and slider switch applications.

The CAP1114 contains multiple power states, including several low-power operating states. It has four operational states: Fully Active, Sleep, Deep Sleep, and Inactive depending on the status of the SLEEP, DEACT, and DSLEEP register bits. When the device transitions between power states, previously detected touches (for deactivated channels) are cleared, and the status bits reset.

As mentioned earlier, this board contains a 7-segment capacitive sensing slider that can detect a slide in either the UP or DOWN direction, as well as two touch buttons. These pads are the only elements on the top side of the board, allowing the protective acrylic plexiglass layer placement. Each of these features has an LED indicator representing the activity in that field. If a touch event is detected on one of these onboard pads, the state of the corresponding LED will be changed, indicating an activated channel; more precisely, touch has been detected on that specific field.

CapSense 2 Click communicates with MCU using the standard I2C 2-Wire interface to read data and configure settings. It also possesses an additional alert interrupt signal, routed on the INT pin of the mikroBUS™ socket labeled as ALT, indicating when a specific interrupt event occurs (touch detection), and Reset pin routed to the RST pin of the mikroBUS™ socket used to hold all internal blocks of the CAP1114 in a reset state.

This Click board™ can be operated only with a 3.3V logic voltage level. The board must perform appropriate logic voltage level conversion before using MCUs with different logic levels. However, the Click board™ comes equipped with a library containing functions and an example code that can be used, as a reference, for further development.

• Interface: I²C
• Compatibility: mikroBUS™
• Dimensions: 57.15 x 25.4mm
• Input Voltage: 3.3V
• Operating Temperature Range: Min. 0°C, Typ. +25°C, Max. +85°C

• Schematic
• CAP1114 Datasheet
• mikroSDK
• GitHub