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Qtouch libraries

I'm so down with Atmel's Qtouch library . Basically, it lets you add capacitive touch detection to your projects- and it works through non-conductive surfaces. Think touch-sensitive sealed keypads, or the scroll wheel from the older generation of iPods. Nobody- as near as I can tell- has this working with the Arduino environment yet. It should be doable, because you can do it in AVRStudio compiling code through WINAVR, which is just a distribution for AVR-GCC, which is what Arduino compiles its code with. I'm working on it, but here, in the meantime, is a walk-through of getting the Qtouch demos working with the '328P found on the Arduino board (under Windows- don't bug me about figuring out how to use it in Linux): 1. Download and install AVRStudio from Atmel- annoyingly, you have to fill in a long-ish form with the standard information about who you are and what you're doing. This is not, in and of itself, TOO annoying- but the fact that they make you d