Have you ever thought of your smartphone's multitouch as similar to your skins ability to sense touch?
We take for granted being able to sense our environment, but designing an electronic device's ability to sense the environment is no trivial task. Learn about how multitouch works in this video!

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Table of Contents:
00:06 Electronics Sensing the Environment
01:08 Section 1: Understanding the Grid
01:59 Section 2: Sensing at one intersection.
02:52 Section 3: Issues with the touchscreen
03:57 Section 4: Scanning Rows
05:12 Section 5: Outro

Background Understanding: Electrons & Electric Fields, Capacitance

Key Branches from this video are: Touchscreen Displays, Capacitors, Measuring Capacitance, Electric Fields

Erratum:
None… yet?

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Work Cited:
3M Touch Technology Brief. (2013). “Projected Capacitive Technology” 

Barrett, Gary. Omote, Ryomei (March, 2010) Projected-Capacitive Touch Technology. Frontline Technology

Fujitsu. (2012). "Capacitive Touch Sensors: Application Fields, Technology Overview and Implementation Example."

Geaghan, Bernard O. (2013) United States Patent No. US8363031 B2. US.

Kent, Joel et. Al. (2001). United States Patent No. US6297811 B1. US.

Li, Tianhao et. Al. (2014) United States Patent No. US8823678 B2. US.

Walker, Geoff. (June, 2014) Fundamentals of Projected-Capacitive Touch Technology. Intel Corporation SID Display Week

Wikipedia contributors. "Touchscreen." "Skin."  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, August 30th, 2018

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