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Touch (knock) sensor with Piezo

If you want to make a simple touch sensor but you dont have the fancy ones around you can also use a piezo element, which come with a lot of basic arduino starter sets.

This video explains it all. 


What you need:

piezo element

Piƫzo-element, 4,4 kHz, 200 Ohm, bedraad

 

breadboard
Breadboard - Velleman 
resistor 1 M ohm
1M ohm Resistor
piece of paper tapePapieren tape 50mm x 50m, bruin

some male/male jumper wires
 
 

 

 

 
 

To make the input visual, open the serial Monitor from the Tools menu.