Touch Sensor Update

In some ways it's been a rough year, what with Covid and a rental-rehab project we found ourselves saddled with.  Supply-chain and contractor issues caused problems; and in many cases we found that the most expedient way to move forward with the project was to do the work ourselves.  We did a lot of research before embarking on any of the major projects we had to do.  Anyway, all that delayed work on my touch sensor -- but now that we've got the rental fixed up (and rented), I've had time to work on some long-delayed personal projects.  That includes the touch sensor that I designed a PCB for.  I did have time to order the PCB and assemble one, but that's about as far as it got until recently.  I finally was able to hook up my 4-point sensor connectors and test the thing:  and, what a surprise -- it worked, right off the bat.  

The wires connecting the modified battery-charger clips to the circuits are a mess, since I used individual wires but I have some cable management stuff I can wrap around them to make it all a little less like an octopus waiting to snare me when I pass by.

Now I'm working on a really sad antique dresser we bought a few years back.  When we bought it we didn't realize what bad shape it was in, so it needs some work -- to put it mildly.  I think a child may have used some of the drawers as a ladder and stepped through the bottoms.  The dovetails on the lowermost drawers were loose, and the rabbets on several of the side pieces (the ones that hold the bottom piece in place) were split or just plain broken off.  I also had to reinforce the sides for a couple of them.  It has water damage, too -- the oak veneer on one side of the case has delaminated.  I'm not going to try to repair that for now -- it basically was purchased to put in a guest room so visitors should just appreciate having a dresser, however it looks (as long as it is usable, anyway).  The feet are a mess, too -- three have the remnants of some sort of steel foot, and there's nothing at all on one of them.  The steel will be pretty bad for scratching our wood floors so there's some work to do there before the dresser is put into service.  I learned a lot during our rental rehab w/regard to doing stuff like trim work so that will come in handy for this project.