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Touch (knock) sensor with Piezo

If you want to make a simple touch sensor but you dontdon'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

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

breadboard
Breadboard - Velleman 

resistor 1 M ohm


1M ohm Resistor

piece of paper tape
Papieren tape 50mm x 50m, bruin


some male/male jumper wires

 
 

 

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