[Vishal] used junk to play around with CapSense, the touch sensitive Arduino library ... It certainly makes for a short afternoon project which you won’t feel bad about taking apart later ...

The sensor shown here is essentially two plates mounted side-by-side, attached to an Arduino Nano using ... you need a proximity or touch-sensitive sensor in a project, reaching for the junk ...

Here is a list of projects ... Arduino is able to interpret signals from a variety of sensors. By placing a unit equipped ...