Muca Breakout
Hardware interface for multi-touch sensing
Muca is a hardware sensor designed to sense mutual capacitance. This advanced sensor allows to sense true multitouch, offering precise touch detection.
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Description
Muca is ideal for enhancing physical human-robot interaction studies in research and development, developing and testing new robotic applications in prototyping and testing, and serving as a perfect tool for academic institutions and robotics courses in education.
Key Features
- High Sensitivity: Detects single touch, multi-touch, pressure, and location.
- Human-like Feel: Soft and comfortable, similar to human skin.
- Flexible Design: Fits curved surfaces and covers large areas.
- Affordable & Easy to Use: Promotes wide adoption in the robotics community.
Technical details
- FT5316DME MCU Controller: Manages touch input and provides precise data.
- Small footprint : The board is only 23mm x 44mm
- i2C connection
- 21 Transmit Electrodes & 12 Receive Electrodes: For precise touch mapping.
- Low Power Consumption: Efficient design using only 0.05mAh per scan.
- Two Control Modes:
- Touch Point Mode: Detects up to 5 fingertip contacts with XY coordinates.
- Raw Scanning Mode: Provides detailed capacitance values for advanced touch detection at 60hz
Sensing Technology
Muca uses projected mutual capacitance, the industry standard for multi-touch sensors. It measures touch by detecting changes in capacitance on a grid of electrodes. When a finger approaches, the electric field is disturbed, allowing the sensor to precisely identify touch points.
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Detect true multitouch
Muca raw data can be combined with Computer Vision applications to explore true opportinities of this technology.
More informations and technical details are available online.