{"id":11759,"date":"2015-01-12T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2015-01-12T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:20:49","slug":"capacitive-touch-hat-for-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11759","title":{"rendered":"Capacitive touch HAT for the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2340-01.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2340-01.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2340-01\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2340-01.jpg?w=970&amp;ssl=1 970w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2340-01.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adafruit have just\u00a0made available to buy a new HAT add-on board. It has pads for up to 12 touch devices (you can use fruit!) and plugs nicely into the GPIO, just as any HAT should. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/products\/2340\" target=\"_blank\">read more and order one here<\/a>. If you&#8217;re in the UK, you&#8217;re best off <a href=\"http:\/\/makersify.com\" target=\"_blank\">contacting Makersify and they&#8217;ll import one for you.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adafruit have just\u00a0made available to buy a new HAT add-on board. It has pads for up to 12 touch devices (you can use fruit!) and plugs nicely into the GPIO, just as any HAT should. You can read more and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11759\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,20,50,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-making","category-rpi-shopping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capacitive touch HAT for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11759\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Capacitive touch HAT for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adafruit have just\u00a0made available to buy a new HAT add-on board. 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