Breadboard capacitive touch sensor tutorial

Build your own capacitive touch sensor on a breadboard! In this tutorial we will use the PIC16F627A microcontroller to build a simple capacitive touch sensor from scratch. And to keep things interesting, we will build a momentary switch, a toggle switch, a timer, and a 3-level dimmer.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction & Overview
01:06 What you need
01:58 How does a capacitive touch sensor work?
04:12 Schematic
05:01 Programming the PIC16F627A microcontroller
06:46 How does the program work?
08:00 Bending the touch sensor wires
08:18 Building the circuit
10:20 Flashing the PIC16F627A microcontroller
11:46 The final product
12:21 Conclusion & troubleshooting