With the board, you can connect almost anything to capacitive electrodes or to the I/O pins of an MP3 decoder and transform your environment into a giant interactive project.
With the paint, you can draw all the circuits you can think of, on any support. The kit is accessible to beginners and seasoned hobbyists, as well as researchers, teachers and designers.
Bare Conductive Touch Board kit: a comprehensive kit to recreate your world
With the Arduino compatible programming board and the electric paint, Bare Conductive has included a multitude of accessories to foster creativity: a house stencil to paste on a wall, tabs and stickers, brushes, alligator clips for making your connections... Not forgetting a microSD card and its reader, a mini speaker, and some cutouts for easier painting.
This kit mixes arts and electronics projects expertly. And as you’ll see in the Resources section below, you’ll never fall short of ideas!
Technical specifications of the Touch Board electronics kit
Dimensions: 55 × 217 × 157 mm
Weight: 564 g
From 14 years
Made in the United Kingdom
Touch Board:
Atmel ATmega32U4 microcontroller
Touch IC: MPR121 resurgent semiconductor
MP3 decode IC: VLSI solution VS1053b
Audio output: 15 mW into 32 Ohms via a 3.5 mm stereo socket
Removable storage: up to 32 GB via microSD card
Supply voltage: 3–5.5 Vdc
Operating voltage: 5 Vdc
Max. output current (5V rail): 400 mA (100 mA at start-up)
DC current per I/O pin: 40 mA sink and source (ATmega32U4), 12 mA source/1.2 mA sink (MPR121)
Analogue input resistance: 100 MOhms (ATmega32U4)
Electric Paint:
Made in the United Kingdom
Dimensions: 46 × 76 × 76 mm
Weight: 141 g
From 14 years
Colour: black
Density: 1,16 g/ml
Non-toxic and solvent free
Water soluble
Screen-printing: up to 0.8 m²
Drying time: 10-15 minutes at room temperature
Adheres well to paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, glass, plaster, certain rubbers, e-textiles, etc.
Surface resistivity: +/-55 Ohms/sq on a 55 micron thick layer
Max. supply current: 12 Vdc/ 50 mA
Included in the kit:
1 Touch Board
1 Electric Paint 10 ml tube
1 Electric Paint 50 ml pot
1 manual
1 microSD card
1 microSD card reader
1 micro-USB cable
1 mini speaker
12 alligator clips (colours vary)
1 house stencil
1 stencil brush
12 sticky tabs
3 Velcro stickers
2 paper cutouts
Resources for the Touch Board kit
Videos, schematics, graphics, lines of code, technical data: you’re spoilt for choice to get started with the Touch Board Starter Kit under the best possible conditions!