How it works

Fast touch™ system - Rapid Prototype Capacitive Touch

The Fast Touch™ system allows you to quickly tune and configure capacitive touch keypads for prototype or production control systems. With our USB HID mapping tool, you can easily map buttons to keys on a computer keyboard, joystick or mouse.

Features

• Communication Interfaces: USB, Uart Serial, etc.
• Ziff connector for film / membrane button sensors
• Easy Configuration Utility - No software coding required!

Custom Capacitive Touch PCB Keypad

In the PCB method of capacitive touch design you will find the touch sensors on the top of the PCB and the necessary capacitive touch electronics on the bottom side. In many cases it is possible to add the product's control electronics to this same PCB ultimately reducing the cost of the product. A reverse printed glass or plastic graphic overlay can be attached with adhesive.

Getting started is easy, please fill out this custom keypad form and contact us!

Features

• Low Cost Design
• Consolidate all product electronics to one pcb
• Simple product integration
• Modern Look and Feel

Custom Capacitive Touch Film Keypad

The Film keypad has the capacitive touch sensor pads printed on a thin flexible film or membrane. The film has a ZIF tail which is plugged into the capacitive touch driver electronics. We can make opaque and clear / translucent conductive films as well as use nano-wire technology. After learning about your project we can determine if the PCB or Film method of capacitive touch design is right for you.

Features

• Thin flexible film conforms to curved surfaces
• Clear conductive or Nano-Wire sensor pads allow for projected led lighting
• Film sensors can work in places that PCB sensors can't
• Modern Look and Feel

USB Keypads

Using the USB HID we can map any capacitive touch button to any key on your computer keyboard, mouse, and joystick. This is the best way to create a custom USB keypad for any Kiosk.

Features

• No USB Driver needed for USB HID Keypads
• Acts just like a computer keyboard, joystick or mouse
• Simple Kiosk Control
• Reverse Printed Glass or Plastic Graphic Overlays

Uniform and Diffuse LED lighting

We use several methods of LED Lighting to illuminate keypads and control panels. Fore Light™ technology is used when ultra thin / low profile LED back lighting is required. The Projected Lighting Technique is used when brightness is the top priority. Selective lighting in combination with our Dead Front technique is used to make buttons appear and disappear from the background. You can also control the color and brightness of individual buttons, icons and text. Finally our Indicator Lighting is used to quickly give the user operational feedback.

Features

• Ultra thin, Low Profile LED Backlighting
• Uniform, Diffuse and Bright
• LEDs stay bright, they have a very long life
• Control the illumination, brightness and color of individual buttons and icons

Audio Feedback

Add rich, high fidelity audio feedback to any keypad or user interface. Individual buttons can be mapped to their own sounds. Multiple sounds can be played simultaneously. Sounds can be stored in sd-cards as .wav files. Replace that old buzzer with this modern and elegant audio feedback!

Features

• Sounds can be stored as .wav files in an SD Card
• Polyphonic Sound - Multiple sounds can be played simultaneously
• Playback Volume control

Custom control systems

After finding out touch interfaces require electronics, our customers ask us to add the product's main electronics to the same circuit board! This ultimately reduces the cost of the product and simplifies assembly. We have designed several industrial and medical control systems for example: thermocouple based heater controls, pump and motor controls. Adding remote automatic firmware update, remote diagnostics and control as well as factory automation and HMI control.

Features

• Capacitive Touch based user interface
• Complete Control System Design
• Remote Automatic Firmware Update
• Remote Diagnostics and Configuration
• Automation and HMI control

Interactive store windows and POP Displays

With our USB Touch Total Control system you can easily make a store window touch sensitive! You can control relays, stepper motors, lights and even play audio when sensors are touched. This capacitive touch system works great for Point of Purchase Displays

Features

• Sense touch through window glass
• Control Relays, Stepper Motors, Lights
• Assign audio playback to any touch sensor
• Easy configuration utility!
• Perfect for POP Displays and Interactive Store Windows