Cypress Semiconductor's CY8CKIT-024 CapSense proximity shield is an Arduino^™-compatible evaluation platform for CapSense-based, proximity-sensing solutions. The shield is designed to work with all of the Cypress PSoC^® Pioneer kits.

The CY8CKIT-024 CapSense proximity shield enables users to evaluate the proximity-sensing capabilities of Cypress' CapSense solutions. Designed to work with the Cypress PSoC Pioneer kits, the user can evaluate advanced proximity-sensing features including liquid tolerance, wake-on-approach, and gesture detection using the five proximity loops on the CY8CKIT-024.

With the CY8CKIT-024 CapSense proximity shield, Cypress is taking proximity detection to the next level by providing users with three-dimensional, gesture-recognition capabilities. The example projects shipped with the shield provide users with the ability to measure proximity in the X, Y, and Z directions.

PSoC 4 is Cypress' ARM^®-based PSoC, featuring the low-power Cortex^®-M0 core combined with PSoC's unique, programmable, mixed-signal hardware IP, resulting in a flexible and scalable, low-power, mixed-signal architecture. The CY8CKIT-024 is designed to work with the Cypress PSoC pioneer kits (CY8CKIT-040 and CY8CKIT-042) allowing users to prototype advanced systems which feature proximity-sensing capabilities (for example, a motor-control system which is controlled by gestures).