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Touch pHAT

by Pimoroni

Six touch-sensitive buttons to use for whatever your heart desires, with added LEDs (did you expect anything less?)

Touch pHAT has six capacitive touch buttons, each with a bright white LED, designed to be completely agnostic about what they're used for. You can even use a dry erase pen to write on the pads to label their function.

It uses the CAP1166 capacitive touch and LED driver chip. The LEDs have been under-mounted and shine through exposed sections of the PCB to give a pleasing yellow-green glow and a completely smooth top surface!

Use Touch pHAT as a controller for your robot, a controller for your Mote lights, a tiny drum machine, or use it to build a simple game where you have to taps the buttons to repeat the sequence of lights that just flashed.

The MagPi gave Touch pHAT a four star review and said that it "makes it a lot easier to add input buttons to projects".

Features

  • Six capacitive touch buttons
  • Six bright white under-mounted LEDs
  • Microchip CAP1166 capacitive touch and LED driver chip
  • Touch pHAT pinout
  • Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
  • Python library
  • Female header requires soldering

Software

Our handy one-line installer will install the Touch pHAT Python library for you. We've included a couple of examples too, to show off what you can do with Touch pHAT.

8 customer reviews

4 years ago
Complète parfaitement le Microdot Phat pour avoir une interface simple, lisible et peu encombrante !
by Stephane about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
Added to my internet radio project with a Pi Zero W and Speaker Hat - perfect combination and great service as usual - nice one guys !
by Jon about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io
6 years ago
Works really well! Put it together with a hammer header and it goes onto the pHAT Stack with no issue. I do wish it came pre-soldered as I worry about the longevity of the header, but that's not a dealbreaker. The included library is really great - looking forward to having a more detailed play and seeing how I can combine it with other pHATs.
by Arianne about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io
7 years ago
I try to build a switch for my hue System. I take the 6 buttonsand connect them to different bulbs. When I press a buttoni check if the bulb is switched on. If this is the case I Switch it off otherwise off. Also I take the led to Show the state of the bulb. That works great, if I do not press the same button two times. If I do that, the led is aВґswitched off, but the Action is ignored. The example you gave to me works without Problems. So finally i Like the tool but I have to find out why the phat reacts as it does.
by Holger about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io
7 years ago
When you are dealing with a display-less Pi, make the things really easy to start/stop scripts/programs with a touch responsive button. I also love it that when the button is pressed it will blink it's LED
by Bruno about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io
8 years ago
This is a great pHAT, one of my favorites. I have one just for controlling Kodi and another on a Mini Black HAT Hack3r with a Scroll pHAT HD for displaying stats of all my other Raspberrys. Very useful, very easy to code and affordable, just perfect! Keep up the good work Pimoroni!
by Jos?© about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io
8 years ago
I originally got this to make a status system for the car that i could use to email when i was leaving and arrived at a destination but after playing with it thought it would actually make a great robot controller.
by Paul about Touch pHAT via REVIEWS.io