I didn’t have the schematic on the airplane, but here is a more “schematic” view of the chips on the board.

I knew that the UART source code would be slightly easier, so I picked that as the mechanism to connect the chips.  On my computer I had the “capsenseled” workspace from the videos.  So, I created a new PSoC4000S project in that workspace called “145capsenseled.”  I started with the schematic:

1. Add the new CapSense component.  I am currently running a “nightly build” of PSoC Creator 3.3 that supports the new chip.  You can see in the PSoC Creator release I’m using there is a prototype version of the CapSense component.
2. Add 5 Digital Output Pins under software control to drive the LEDs that are next to the slider
3. Add 1 Digital Output pin to drive the blue LED
4. Add a Serial Communication Block (SCB) configured as a UART

Here is a screenshot of the new CapSense component configuration wizard.  You can see I added a linear slider and set up the component to use SmartSense full-auto tuning.

After configuring the CapSense, I set up the pin assignments using the DWR:

Then I wrote the firmware, which was pretty straight forward.

• 10-11 start the CapSense
• 12 start the UART
• 16: If the CapSense block is done scanning and is idle, then read the CapSense and do something with it (lines 17 -> 41).
• 18: figure out where the person is touching
• 19: if they have actually touched the block
• 22-26 light up the LEDs
• 30-35 If there is no touch, then turn off the LEDs.
• 36-37 start the next scan
• 38-39: If the UART is not busy… then send the position (0-100) or (0xFF if there is no touch).
• 41-42: If there is a byte in the UART receive buffer, then light up or turn off the Blue LED. (Notice that the LED is active low so I use the “!” operation to flip the state of the signal.

After that, I programmed the kit and tested it.  It seemed like everything was good.  In the next post, I’ll show you the schematic and firmware that runs on the PRoC BLE.

You can find the PSoC Creator workspace on github in the directory called “capsenseble-145.”

It is called a “stamp board” because it comes in a flat postage stamp-like postcard mailer.  Here is a picture of the front and the back (you can see that it has already lived a hard life riding around in my backpack).

Here is the back of the mailer:

In the picture you can see the yellow label proclaiming this to be an engineering sample.  It doesn’t seem like much, but when you pull back the front of the package you get to see the surprise:

The kit can literally be broken into four separate pieces:

1. The main board:
   • The PSoC4000S
   • A reset switch
   • A user LED
   • A user push button
   • A programming selector (to pick either the PSoC4000s or the PRoC BLE (that is on the back of the kit)) as the target of the programmer
   • All of the PSoC4000S pins are available on the 100mil center headers
   • A PCB footprint for a 10-pin ARM programming header
2. A programmer board:
   • A PSoC5LP programmed with KitProg2 Firmware
   • A programmer mode button
   • 100mil center header with some of the PSoC5LP pins
3. A Capsense slider user interface board with a 5 Segment Slider and 5 LEDs
4. A Capsense button user interface board with 3 mutual capacitance buttons and 3 LEDs

And the back, with the tiny 10mm X 10mm PRoC BLE module:

Here is the schematic for the board:

I wanted to build a project that would have two-way communication between my iPhone and the board, and would be compatible with the Swift App I had written.  The user of the board would have a capsense slider (and LEDs) of which the iPhone App could read the position.  In addition, it would have an LED that the iOS app could turn on and off.  Here is a demonstration that I filmed with my iPhone on the airplane:

In the next post I will describe the overall system and show you the firmware.