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Hi all,
I'm planning on building a touchscreen/pad. I am planning on using two sets of wires each separated by a small gap. One will be in the x direction the other in the y. the top wires will be wired to positive and the lower wires to negative, so that when the pad is touched two wires will enter in contact closing the circuit.
The signal will be extracted from each wire and processed through a computer. Due to my lack of background in electrical engineering (apologies for that) I have absolutely no idea how to get my electrical signal to the computer. And even more how I will do that for 100s of wires (each wire spaced by 1mm and being 0.1mm thin I expect to cover a surface of at least an A4 sheet).
Anyone has any suggestion ? The aim of this hobby project is to learn, so I am open to suggestions. Even things to look into would be useful... the problem is that I don't even know what I'm looking for (microcontrollers ??, I have no clue).
Thanks a lot,
Julien
I'm planning on building a touchscreen/pad. I am planning on using two sets of wires each separated by a small gap. One will be in the x direction the other in the y. the top wires will be wired to positive and the lower wires to negative, so that when the pad is touched two wires will enter in contact closing the circuit.
The signal will be extracted from each wire and processed through a computer. Due to my lack of background in electrical engineering (apologies for that) I have absolutely no idea how to get my electrical signal to the computer. And even more how I will do that for 100s of wires (each wire spaced by 1mm and being 0.1mm thin I expect to cover a surface of at least an A4 sheet).
Anyone has any suggestion ? The aim of this hobby project is to learn, so I am open to suggestions. Even things to look into would be useful... the problem is that I don't even know what I'm looking for (microcontrollers ??, I have no clue).
Thanks a lot,
Julien