Robots and Physical Computing

I have been having a first play with a SPOKE capacitive touch controller board. At the time of writing, it is available from Pimoroni at: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/spoke-capacitive-touch-controller-board?variant=56217676382587 This is not a full review, more a first-impressions note after getting it connected and trying a few of the web-based examples. The short version is: it worked, it was fun, and there was one small setup detail that was worth noting if you are using a mac neo. The SPOKE board is a capacitive touch controller. In practice, that means you can touch parts of the board and use those touches as inputs. One of the interesting things about it is that it can act as a MIDI controller, so immediately my mind went to sound, music, GarageBand, and possibly coding experiments later on. image taken from  https://www.spokeboard.com/ The place to start is the SPOKE website: https://www.spokeboard.com/ On the site, there is a very useful route labelled “Have your SPOK...