!!! Deprecated !!! This library is now part of a collective library containing all my current arduino libraries including new ones. This one will not be updated and will be deleted in some time... Available at: https://github.com/RPBCACUEAIIBH/HexaLib-Arduino

The Touchlib library contains 2 classes that work differently, one reads the voltage level on an analog pin, the other counts till the pin goes high.

Features:

• Features a very responsive DigitalTouch calass (Should work on any digital I/O)
• Also features a less responsive but higher resolution and more compact AnalogTouch class (only works on 10 bit analog input that can also be set up as digital I/O)
• Both Classes are minimalistic, and have the same methods to make it easy to use, but they different defaults, and work differently under the hood.
• They both provide boolean, and byte readings, both have calibrate, and hysteresis methods, to make sure all the readings are accurate and stable.

Note that: The value given by DigitalTouch::Read() method rises when touched, while the value given by the AnalogTouch::Read() method falls when touched!

Hardware requirements:

• Arduino running at 16MHz (Any type should do. 16MHz is important because of timing. 8MHz will work but require different settings. Mine is pro-mini 5V, 16MHz version.)
• 2 Touch pads hooked up to any digital I/O or any 10 bit analog input that can also be set up as digital I/O in both case with an external 1M pullup resistor to VCC. (Unlike the CapacitiveSensor library this one does not require an extra pin to operate! 1 pin as touch input with an external 1M pullup resistor. That's it!)

Software requirements:

• Arduino IDE
• TouchLib library (This one...)

Skill requirements:

• You need to have basic arduino skills. (Soldering, understanding arduino code, installing and using libraries, etc. This is a library of source code and CAD files with an example sketch not a tutorial, so I won't explain everything here.)

Update v1.1.0:

• Added ESP8266 example sketch with settings for 12F generic module. (It requires 330K rather then 1M resistor!)

Instructions:

1. Add library to your arduino IDE

• Open terminal in your Arduino/libraries directory, and run "git clone https://github.com/RPBCACUEAIIBH/TouchLib" and restart the IDE.
• Download as .zip package, go to the Sketch/Include Library/Add .ZIP Library... in you Arduino IDE, select it, and click ok.

2. Open the included example sketch to see how to use it.

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