Grove - 12 Key Capacitive I2C Touch Sensor V3 (MPR121)

The Grove - 12 Key Capacitive I2C Touch Sensor V3 (MPR121) is a multi-channel proximity capacitive touch sensor. It's a 3-in-1 module with the following features: Capacitance Sensing and Touch Sensing.

Capacitance Sensing: This module uses a constant DC current capacitance sensing scheme. It can measure capacitances ranging from 10 pF to over 2000 pF with a resolution up to 0.01 pF.

Touch Sensing: Once the electrode capacitance data is acquired, the electrode touch/release status is determined comparing it to the capacitance baseline value.

Based on Freescale MPR121, this sensor has 12 completely independent electrodes with built-in auto-configuration. Thanks to the I2C interface, you can detect all the 12 electrodes signals with only one Grove port and the I2C address is hardware configurable from 0x5B to 0x5D. This also makes it possible for multiple touch sensors to be used together for channel expansions in a single system. You can build a touch system which contains max. 36 electrodes.

Features

• Internal 10-bit ADC
• Integrated independent auto-calibration for each electrode input
• Completely independent electrodes with built-in auto-configuration
• I2C interface, with IRQ, Interrupt output to advise electrode status changes
• Hardware configurable I2C address
• 12 electrodes/capacitance sensing inputs in which 8 are multifunctional for LED driving and GPIO
• Auto-configuration of charge current and charge time for each electrode input
• Separate touch and release trip thresholds for each electrode, providing hysteresis and electrode independence
• Add two more GND pin and expand the gap of pins for safe handling