{"id":7619,"date":"2014-01-28T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2014-01-28T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T10:05:10","slug":"great-fun-with-potatoes-capacitive-touch-and-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7619","title":{"rendered":"Great fun with potatoes &#8211; capacitive touch and the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/arghbox.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/2013-08-11-17-43-50.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Craig Argh has posted a great tutorial on using a capacitive touch sensor breakout board, 5 potatoes and the Pi. Sounds insane, but it&#8217;s a great way to learn about capacitance and how to use strange objects to control your Pi. Full instructions (but unfortunately no suggestions on variety of potato to use!) are <a href=\"http:\/\/arghbox.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/12\/capacitive-touch-potatoes-on-the-raspberry-pi\/\">available over at the ArghBox blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Argh has posted a great tutorial on using a capacitive touch sensor breakout board, 5 potatoes and the Pi. 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