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.


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.