Touch pHAT

Touch pHAT: touch sensitive buttons with added LEDs

The Touch pHAT displays six touch-sensitive buttons with added LEDs, perfect to use it for plenty of fantastic ideas.

Each one of the six capacitive touch-sensitive buttons has a bright white LED you can use as you wish. If you desire, to label their functions, you may write on the pads with a dry erase pen.

This product employs a CAP1166 driver chip to control the capacitive touch inputs and LEDs. The LEDs are under-mounted and produce a delicate yellow-green glow through the exposed sections of the PCB. This grants also a totally smooth top surface.

The Touch pHAT can be used as a tiny drum machine, a controller for your robot or your Mote lights. You can also build simple games, as for example, you can tap the buttons to repeat a given light sequence. It’s a nice challenge!

The Touch pHAT features are:

• Six capacitive touch buttons
• Six bright white under-mounted LEDs
• Microchip CAP1166 capacitive touch and LED driver chip
• Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero and Zero W
• Touch pHAT pinout
• Python library
• Female header requires soldering

The Touch pHAT includes:

• Touch pHAT
• Female header

Software
You can install the Touch pHAT Python library with a useful one-line installer. There will be shown a couple of examples of what it is possible to do with the Touch pHAT.

This software DOES NOT support Raspbian Wheezy.

Pimoroni name: Touch pHAT [PIM272]