DESIGN OF THE YEAR 2014 – DIGITAL – 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 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.

The awsome Touch Board’s 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

http://www.bareconductive.com/