MakerBit Touch

MakeCode package for touch sensing with the capacitive touch sensor controller MPR121.

MakerBit Board

The MakerBit connects to the BBC micro:bit to provide easy connections to a wide variety of sensors, actuators and other components. Among other things, it features a MPR121 controller.

http://makerbit.com/

MakerBit	MakerBit+R with motor controller

MakeCode Touch Blocks

MakerBit offers built-in support for up to 12 touch sensors via the proximity capacitive touch sensor controller MPR121.

makerbit.onTouch

Do something when a touch sensor is touched or released.

makerbit.onTouch(TouchSensor.T5, TouchAction.Pressed, () => {})

Parameters

• sensor - the touch sensor to be checked
• action- the trigger action
• handler - body code to run when the event is raised

makerbit.touchSensor

Returns the sensor index of the last touch event that was received. It could be either a sensor touched or released event.

makerbit.touchSensor()

makerbit.isTouched

Returns true if a specific touch sensor is currently touched. False otherwise.

makerbit.isTouched(TouchSensor.T5)

Parameters

• sensor - the touch sensor to be checked

makerbit.wasTouched

Returns true if any sensor was touched since the last call of this function. False otherwise.

makerbit.wasTouched()

License

Licensed under the MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE file for more details.

Supported targets

• for PXT/microbit
• for PXT/calliope