Detecting proximity with very low capacitance measurements

Matthias random stuff Video 3 months ago

Description

Experimenting with measuring very low capacitance values using just digital I/O lines timing on the Pi Pico using the PIO state machines and micropython. This worked much better than I imagined it would, able to detect capacitance changes just from my proximity.

The code I used on github:
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/Pico-femtofarad