Touch Board: Interactivity Everywhere

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Now anyone can transform touch into sound (and so much more!) with the Touch Board, an easy-to-use Arduino-compatible device.

What is the Touch Board?

The Touch Board is a tool to make your projects interactive, responsive, smart or just fun. Use the Touch Board to change the world around you by turning almost any material or surface into a sensor. Connect anything conductive to one of its 12 electrodes and trigger a sound via its onboard MP3 player, play a MIDI note or do anything else that you might do with an Arduino or Arduino-compatible device.

The Touch Board!

The Touch Board is designed as an easy-to-use platform for a huge range of projects, whether it's painting a lightswitch on your wall, making a paper piano or something nobody's thought of yet. Make sure to take a look at our video above and check out the information below. If you've got a question, get in touch and we'll get it up in the FAQs. We hope you'll support the Touch Board. We can't wait to see what you will build on top of this powerful platform!
We're proud to announce that the Touch Board is one of the first projects to be selected for the new Arduino At Heart program!

We've worked hard to pack the Touch Board with awesome features:

• Touch sensing - The world is your interface! 
• Distance sensing - You don't need to touch your sensors to use them!
• No programming required - Unless you want to!
• Arduino-compatible - Easy to program and works with popular shields
• Works great with Electric Paint - Or any other conductive material
• MP3 Player / MIDI device - Make a symphony of sounds!
• MicroSD card socket - Change the sounds just by changing the card
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack - Works with headphones and speakers
• Lithium Polymer (LiPo) - Stand alone projects that recharge via USB
• HID capable - Turn the Touch Board into a keyboard or mouse

Who is Bare Conductive?

We're a small design studio founded in 2009, based in London, UK. We're known for our electrically conductive paint and cool kits. We believe in making electronics accessible to everyone whether it's through new materials like our Electric Paint or through hardware like our kits and the Touch Board. The story of the Touch Board began last year when we saw the amazing graphical interfaces that people were creating with our Electric Paint. They asked us for a piece hardware that would make it easier for them and we've responded with the Touch Board. Click on our full bio to the right for more information.

What can I make with the Touch Board? 

The possibilities are limitless and that's why we've tried to show a range of projects in our video. But, we've only scratched the surface. We're hoping that you'll build on what we're showing here to create things that none of us could have expected. Throughout the campaign and after we'll be posting tutorials showing you how to make the projects from the video and more. It's our job to put the tools in your hands. It's your job to create with them, so get started!

Using the Touch Board as a touch sensor

The opening scene of our video shows a finger touching one of the 12 electrodes on the Touch Board, triggering a sound. It's really that easy to get started.

Using the Touch Board is as simple as touching it.

As shipped, the Touch Board will be pre-programmed to turn touch into sound. Touch electrode #1, hear track #1. Touch electrode #2, hear track #2, and so on. We've decided to ship the Touch Board pre-programmed and with a microSD card loaded with sample sounds so that you can focus on getting the Touch Board into your project. All you need to do is power up your Touch Board with a battery or USB, put your sounds on your microSD card and connect a speaker.
You could paint some instruments on a piece of paper, make a book interactive, create your own alphabet wall or even build an awesome cardboard boombox like the one in our video. The boombox was so much fun to make that we've decided to offer it as a reward so check out the images at the bottom of the page or the reward info to the right and get rockin'.

The Touch Board turned our wall into a talking alphabet.

One of our favourite projects is the alphabet wall in our studio, made possible with a bit of Electric Paint, a Touch Board and a willing participant. The letters were painted onto the wall with Electric Paint and connected to the Touch Board with a set of painted traces. To make the project a bit more magical we covered the traces with white house paint. After changing the sounds in the microSD card all we had to do was get out the crayons and the kid! Sophie had a great time playing with the wall and left wishing it was on her wall instead of ours.

Using the Touch Board as a distance sensor

Nothing amazes studio visitors more than when we show them how the Touch Board can act as a distance sensor. The distance sensor is actually just a SUPER sensitive touch sensor. By uploading the distance code (which we'll release upon shipment of the boards), you'll be able to make a sensor that you can interact with from up to 20 cm away.

The Touch Board can work as a distance sensor.

The image above shows how the Touch Board can infer your distance from a sensor. You could hide this sensor with a non-conductive piece of material (like a piece of paper or glass) and it would still function. It's pretty amazing stuff and we can't wait to see what you do with it.

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