And the Touch Board from Bare Conductive wants you to combine your DIY spirit with the ability to turn practically any surface into a sensor. At the heart is an Arduino compatible microcontroller ...

[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board ... a spring elegantly used as a hidden touch sensor that works through an ...

Instead of using mechanical paddles, [Sebastian] brought his iambic key into the 21st century by using a touch sensor ... same idea behind the wonderful Arduino CapSense library.

In a world increasingly dominated by touchscreens, a London design studio is taking an approach to touch ... using compatible Arduino shields). This would even work if the sensor were hidden ...