{"id":10188,"date":"2019-08-12T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilover.com\/negozio\/touch-phat-touch-sensitive-buttons-with-added-leds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:17:01","slug":"touch-phat-touch-sensitive-buttons-with-added-leds","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.pilover.com\/en\/shop\/touch-phat-touch-sensitive-buttons-with-added-leds\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch pHAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Touch pHAT: touch sensitive buttons with added LEDs<\/h2>\n<p>The Touch pHAT displays six touch-sensitive buttons with added LEDs, perfect to use it for plenty of fantastic ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Each one of the six capacitive touch-sensitive buttons has a bright white LED<\/strong> you can use as you wish. If you desire, to label their functions, you may write on the pads with a dry erase pen.<\/p>\n<p>This product employs a <strong>CAP1166 driver chip<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Touch pHAT<\/strong> 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&#8217;s a nice challenge!<\/p>\n<h3>The Touch pHAT features are:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Six capacitive touch buttons<\/li>\n<li>Six bright white under-mounted LEDs<\/li>\n<li>Microchip CAP1166 capacitive touch and LED driver chip<\/li>\n<li>Compatible with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilover.com\/en\/category\/official-raspberry-pi\/raspberry-pi-boards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero and Zero W<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinout.xyz\/pinout\/touch_phat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Touch pHAT pinout<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Python library<\/li>\n<li>Female header requires soldering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Touch pHAT includes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Touch pHAT<\/li>\n<li>Female header<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Software<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can install the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pimoroni\/touch-phat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Touch pHAT Python library<\/a> with a useful one-line installer. 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