Capacitive Touch Evaluation Kit by Microchip Technology, Chandler, AZ, lets designers develop capacitive touch user-interface applications using Microchip’s 8- and 16-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs). The kit includes two main boards—one populated with a PIC16F72X 8-bit MCU and the other with a PIC24F256GB110 16-bit MCU; four daughter boards for developing capacitive-touch keys, sliders and a matrix; a PICkit™ Serial Analyzer; an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI); and several code and schematic examples. The modular kit lets designers try different keypad configurations and experiment with touch-pad sizes and shapes using the mother boards.