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Touch (knock) sensor with Piezo

If you want to make a simple touch sensor but you don't have the fancy ones around you can also use a piezo element, which come with a lot of basic arduino starter sets.

What you need:

piezo element

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breadboard
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resistor 1 M ohm


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piece of paper tape

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some male/male jumper wires

This video explains it all. To make the input visual, open the serial Monitor from the Tools menu.