SPOKE
Categories: Commercial Hardware Products
Submitted By: Tom Fox
Elevator Pitch
SPOKE
Product Description
How It’s Innovative
Compared to previous methods and boards that worked with capacitive touch, this board is easier to use, has more inputs available, is completely customisable and is more affordable. Often in the past you would need multiple chips, one to handle the code, one to handle the sensing, etc. This boar runs everything from the single chip.
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Most Inspiring Use Cases
What’s most powerful is how SPOKE invites experimentation. One user built a playable fruit orchestra with schoolchildren. Another embedded SPOKE into a textile interface for an inclusive music therapy session. In each case, SPOKE wasn’t just a controller—it was a catalyst for imagination, accessibility, and hands-on learning.
Its greatest inspiration lies in this simplicity: it just works—so ideas can flow freely. It’s not just a great tool for education and workshops, but for prototyping more advanced interfaces for accessibility or installations.
Expansion Plans
There are plans to expand the board to include on-board synthesis, audio-playback via SD cards and more. The board was designed with connectors that will allow future developments via I2C communication.
Commercialization
We had a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year which gave us the funds to go into production through Pimoroni, a company based in the UK. Through them we will have access to distribution networks and the knowledge and expertise to wholesale the board internationally.
Various iterations of the product will go for sale, some aimed at educators, some for musicians and some for more makers/inventors.