What is it? Hover is a development kit that lets you detect hand movements in the air for touch-less interaction. It also features five touch-sensitive capacitive regions so you can get rid of ...

What is it?

Hover is a development kit that lets you detect hand movements in the air for touch-less interaction. It also features five touch-sensitive capacitive regions so you can get rid of those pesky push buttons in all your projects.

More info found here: http://justhover.com/

What can Hover do?

Hover can accurately recognize up, down, left and right swipes up to 5 inches away. Begin interacting with your projects by just waving your hands in the air. In addition to gestures, Hover can recognize touch events on five dedicated capacitive pads. Single tap, double taps and multi-touch is supported.

Hover lets you use gestures to control LEDs, servos, etc. Or you can use the capacitive pads to build touch sensitive joysticks and game pads, etc. For examples, see the video section below.

Library and Documentation

For Arduino, see here

For Raspberry Pi, see here

For Spark Core, see here

Specs

Compatible with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Spark Core

Uses the MGC3130 as the gesture & touch controller

Powered by 3.3V

Breadboard friendly (7 pins)

Uses I2C and two GPIOs to communicate with host

Compatible with 5V and 3.3V microcontrollers (on-board logic level shifting for I2C lines)

Gesture Detection Range: up to 5 inches.

Gestures Supported: up, down, left, right

Touch Features: up to 5 electrodes can be used for touch input.

Dimensions: 2.5'' x 2.5''

What you get:

We designed Hover to be minimal so that we can get it to you in the quickest way possible. With each order, you get a fully functional Hover board that has the 7-pin header populated. Just plug it into a breadboard and start building (breadboard not included).

(ships in 1-2 weeks)

Hover in action: