MSP430 Capacitive Touch BoosterPack 430BOOST-SENSE1

This BoosterPack features several capacitive touch elements including a scroll wheel, button and proximity sensor. Also, on- board are 9 LEDs that provide instant feedback as users interact with the capacitive touch elements. In addition, a timer-based UART enables communication to a PC for feedback via GUI or hyperterminal. This BoosterPack also includes a pre-programmed MSP430G2452IN20 Value Line device.

When paired with the LaunchPad kit, the Capacitive Touch BoosterPack provides a complete hardware and software reference design to enable developers to quickly and easily replace any physical button with a capacitive touch element. This is the simplest, most cost effective solution for adding capacitive touch differentiation in many applications such as consumer electronics, point of sales machines and other devices with a physical button.

For demo source code, GUI, and Design documentation, click here.

What's Included:

• Capacitive Touch BoosterPack plug in board w/ female headers [Note: Picture shows Capacitive Touch BoosterPack plugged into LaunchPad. LaunchPad is sold separately.]
• MSP430G2452IN20 device that is pre-loaded with demo code
• Quick Start Guide

Features

• Capacitive touch elements including scroll wheel, button and proximity sensor
• 9 on-board LEDs for instant feedback
• Timer-based UART communication enables interface to PC
• Open source graphical user interface (GUI) available
• Includes a pre-programmed MSP430G2452IN20 with demo application
• Fully supported by the MSP430 Capacitive Touch Sense Library