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I have had an arduino for a year now and just got a teensyduino 2.0.
I am still having a hard time with the code.
I wanted to make a usb controller for my computer it wold have about ten buttons on it.

This is the code I found.
I wonted to add more buttons to the code but I cant.

Can some one help.


const int pinBtnUp = 0;

const int pinLEDOutput = 11;

//Variables for the states of the SNES buttons
boolean boolBtnUp;


void setup()
{
  //Setup the pin modes.
  pinMode( pinLEDOutput, OUTPUT );
  //Special for the Teensy is the INPUT_PULLUP
  //It enables a pullup resitor on the pin.
  pinMode( pinBtnUp, INPUT_PULLUP );
 
  //Zero the SNES controller button keys:
  boolBtnUp = false;
 
}


void loop()
{
//  //debugging the start button...
  digitalWrite ( pinLEDOutput, digitalRead(pinBtnUp));

  //Progess the SNES controller buttons to send keystrokes.
  fcnProcessButtons();
 
}

//Function to process the buttons from the SNES controller
void fcnProcessButtons()
{
  //Assign temporary values for the buttons.
  //Remember, the SNES buttons are read as active LOW.
  //Capture their status here:
  boolean boolBtnUp = !digitalRead(pinBtnUp);
 
  if ( boolBtnUp )
  {
    //Set key1 to the U key
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_U );
  } else {
    Keyboard.set_key1( 0 );
  }
   
  //Send all of the set keys.
  Keyboard.send_now();


}

[Reply #1 on:]

DOn't have a teensy but assuming that if your code works, this should give you insight how it is done.

(code not tested or compiled)

Code:

const int pinBtnUp   = 0;
const int pinBtnDown = 1;  // assumption pin 1 is the down

const int pinLEDOutput = 11;

//Variables for the states of the SNES buttons
boolean boolBtnUp = false;
boolean boolBtnDown = false;


void setup()
{
  pinMode( pinLEDOutput, OUTPUT );
  pinMode( pinBtnUp, INPUT_PULLUP );
  pinMode( pinBtnDown, INPUT_PULLUP );
}


void loop()
{
  digitalWrite ( pinLEDOutput, digitalRead(pinBtnUp));

  fcnProcessButtons();
}

void fcnProcessButtons()
{
  boolBtnUp   = !digitalRead(pinBtnUp);
  boolBtnDown = !digitalRead(pinBtnDown);
 
  if ( boolBtnUp )
  {
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_U );
Keyboard.send_now();
  }
  if ( boolBtnDown )
  {
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_D );
Keyboard.send_now();
  }
}

[Reply #2 on:]

Thanks but when I type U or D once they don't stop.
 
I press the button once and instead of there being one d it does this dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.

111swords

[Reply #3 on:]

If you want to be able to handle more than 6 buttons, the code will get a bit more complicated as the USB Keyboard protocol only allows registering up to 6 keypresses at the same time (this is why the Teensyduino keyboard class has six separate methods for issuing a keypress).

Up to 6 buttons can be done fairly easily by duplicating this block of code:

Code:

boolean boolBtnUp = !digitalRead(pinBtnUp);
 
  if ( boolBtnUp )
  {
    //Set key1 to the U key
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_U );
  } else {
    Keyboard.set_key1( 0 );
  }

up to six times, changing the set_key# function that is called for each one, from set_key1() to set_key6().  As I said at the beginning though, writing code to handle  10 buttons becomes a non-trivial task (and you still would not be able to register more than 6 button presses at any one time)

[Reply #4 on:]

I press the button once and instead of there being one d it does this dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.

You need to reset the boolean to false when the key is send!

Code:

  if ( boolBtnUp )
  {
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_U );
    Keyboard.send_now();
    BoolBtnUp = false;
  }
  if ( boolBtnDown )
  {
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_D );
    Keyboard.send_now();
    boolBtnDown = false;
  }

give it a try

[Reply #5 on:]

Are you debouncing your inputs (either with hardware or another method?).  Pressing the button "once" it still bounces open and closed for a few milliseconds (perhaps up to a couple hundred)....in a loop that runs in micro seconds this looks like a whole ton of button presses.


http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Debounce

This little web video explains this a bit and provides some details on various hardware debouncng strategies.

http://jeremyblum.com/2011/03/07/arduino-tutorial-10-interrupts-and-hardware-debouncing/

[Reply #6 on:]

I tried BoolBtnUp = false; but they just keep on coming.
This is way harder than I thought.

[Reply #7 on:]

Thanks for all of your help I got it to work.

This is my finished code

const int pinBtnUp = 0;
const int pinBtnDown= 1;
const int pinLEDOutput = 11;


boolean boolBtnUp;
boolean boolBtnDown;

void setup()
{
  //Setup the pin modes.
  pinMode( pinLEDOutput, OUTPUT );
 
  pinMode( pinBtnUp, INPUT_PULLUP );
  pinMode( pinBtnDown, INPUT_PULLUP );
  //Zero the SNES controller button keys:
  boolBtnUp = false;
  boolBtnDown = false;
}


void loop()
{
//  //debugging the start button...
  digitalWrite ( pinLEDOutput, digitalRead(pinBtnUp));

 
  fcnProcessButtons();
 
}


void fcnProcessButtons()
{
 
  boolean boolBtnUp = !digitalRead(pinBtnUp);
  boolean boolBtnDown = !digitalRead(pinBtnDown);
  if ( boolBtnUp )
  {
    //Set key1 to the U key
    Keyboard.set_key1( KEY_U );
  } else {
    Keyboard.set_key1( 0 );
  }
    if ( boolBtnDown )
  {
    //Set key1 to the U key
    Keyboard.set_key2( KEY_D );
  } else {
    Keyboard.set_key2( 0 );
  }
     
  //Send all of the set keys.
  Keyboard.send_now();


}
 

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Code:

    //Set key1 to the U key
    Keyboard.set_key2( KEY_D );

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