Touch pHAT

via Pimoroni
$16.41
SKU PR-PIM272

We have 8 units in our Sydney Warehouse available for immediate dispatch.

We can get a further 100 units into Australia from Pimoroni. If you order today, we can dispatch this stock between Dec 29, 2024 - Jan 05, 2025.

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 Raspberry Pi 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
  • 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.

Our software does not support Raspbian Wheezy.