ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1

ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1

ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 Board-set

Overview

ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 is a development kit that is aimed at helping evaluate and develop capacitive touch sensor applications on ESP32-S2. It is made up of Motherboard-Subboard structure. The motherboard of ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 integrates ESP32-S2-MINI-1 controller module and several useful little components such as buzzer, digital tube, RGB light, and so on. There are several kinds of subboards in ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 with different kinds of capacitive touch sensor pads, developers can choose one of them and connect it with motherboard so that they could develop different kinds of capacitive touch sensor applications. The motherboard and subboard use the pin header/female pin header as the socket connector which makes it plug in and plug out smoothly.

Motherboard

ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1

Motherboard

Subboards

  • Button-board: Three capacitive touch buttons with waterproof sensor.

Button-board

Water-proof sensor

Button-board Water-proof sensor

  • Slider-board: Capacitive touch linear slider, the relative distance of slider has up to 8-bit precision.

Slider-board

Slider

Slider-board Slider

  • Matrix-board: 3 x 4 capacitive touch matrix button, 7 channels of touch sensor make up of 12 capacitive touch buttons.

Matrix-board

Matrix button

Matrix-board Matrix button

  • Touchpad-board: 7 x 6 two-dimension capacitive touchpad.

Touchpad-board

Touchpad

Touchpad-board Touchpad

  • Proximity-board: Three capacitive touch proximity sensors.

Proximity-board

Sensor

Proximity-board Sensor

Get Started

Install SDK and it’s dependencies:

  1. Install ESP-IDF, please refer to ESP-IDF Programming Guide.

  2. Use the release-4.3 version of ESP-IDF.

    cd esp-idf #Enter esp-idf folder
git checkout release/v4.3 #Checkout release-v4.3 version of ESP-IDF
git submodule update #Maybe is needed

Get ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 project:

  1. Clone esp-dev-kits repo.

    git clone https://github.com/espressif/esp-dev-kits.git

  2. Enter ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 project folder.

    cd esp-dev-kits/esp32-s2-touch-devkit-1

    The project’s structure is shown as followed:

    ├── CMakeLists.txt
├── components              #components' driver
│   ├── board_detect    #subboard detector
│   ├── buzzer              #buzzer driver
│   ├── digital_tube    #digital tube controller driver
│   ├── rgb_light       #RGB light driver(ws2812)
│   ├── subboards       #Subboards' application source file
│   └── touch_element       #Touch element library
├── main        #Main application demo logic
│   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   └── main.c

Build & Flash ESP32-S2-Touch-Devkit-1 demo project:

  1. Enable ESP-IDF environment variable.

    cd esp-idf
. ./export.sh

  2. Build & Flash.

    cd esp-dev-kits/esp32-s2-touch-devkit-1
idf.py set-target esp32s2 #Enable esp32s2 platform
idf.py build flash

  3. Monitor log output.

    idf.py monitor

    Example output:

    I (2880) Touch Demo: Slider sub-board plug in
I (22480) Touch Demo: Slider sub-board plug out
I (22480) Touch Demo: Nothing detected
I (41540) Touch Demo: Touchpad sub-board plug in
I (47700) Touchpad Board: Touchpad pressed, position: [0, 5]
I (47710) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 5]
I (47720) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 5]
I (47730) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 6]
I (47740) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 6]
I (47750) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 6]
I (47760) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 6]
I (47770) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 7]
I (47780) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 8]
I (47790) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 9]
I (47800) Touchpad Board: Position: [0, 9]
I (47810) Touchpad Board: Position: [1, 10]
I (47820) Touchpad Board: Position: [2, 11]
I (47830) Touchpad Board: Position: [2, 12]
I (47840) Touchpad Board: Position: [3, 13]
I (47850) Touchpad Board: Position: [4, 14]
I (47860) Touchpad Board: Position: [5, 15]
I (47870) Touchpad Board: Position: [6, 16]
I (47880) Touchpad Board: Position: [7, 16]
I (47890) Touchpad Board: Position: [9, 17]
I (47900) Touchpad Board: Position: [10, 18]
I (47910) Touchpad Board: Position: [11, 18]
I (47920) Touchpad Board: Position: [11, 19]
I (47930) Touchpad Board: Position: [12, 20]
I (47940) Touchpad Board: Position: [13, 21]
I (47950) Touchpad Board: Position: [14, 21]
I (47960) Touchpad Board: Position: [14, 22]
I (47970) Touchpad Board: Position: [15, 23]
I (47980) Touchpad Board: Position: [15, 23]
I (47990) Touchpad Board: Position: [15, 24]
I (48000) Touchpad Board: Position: [15, 24]
I (48010) Touchpad Board: Position: [15, 24]
I (48020) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 24]
I (48030) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 24]
I (48040) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 24]
I (48050) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 23]
I (48060) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 23]
I (48070) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 22]
I (48080) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 22]
I (48090) Touchpad Board: Position: [16, 21]
I (48100) Touchpad Board: Touchpad released, position: [16, 21]

Notes

  • Some new Touch Sensor features (Touchpad, Touch proximity) are not supported in ESP-IDF Touch Element library, so we copy Touch Element from ESP-IDF components into this demo project’s components’ folder and add the necessary features. They will appear in the future version of ESP-IDF.

Troubleshooting

Q1: Why Proximity-board is connected with Motherboard, they don’t work or work abnormally?

A1: Though all of those subboards are hot-swappable theoretically, the Proximity-board needs to startup in an ideal environment(Far away from your hands). If it goes wrong, you can reset it mandatorily by releasing the power-switch.