Hello all,
I'm trying to use a arduino uno to control five servos by the keyboard.
From what I have researched the arduino uno is not made to be controlled by a keyboard but is there anyway for me to make it work?
Thank you in advance!
Do you mean that you want to control the Uno using the keyboard on a PC or using a keypad directly connected to the Arduino. Either is possible - but the advice will be very different so we need to know what you want to do.
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I'm going to use the keyboard of a laptop to control the Arduino. The Arduino is connected directly to the laptop.
Thank you,
Then you just need a program on the PC that gets the keystrokes and sends them to the Arduino. A terminal program such as RealTerm or PuTTY would probably do the job.
For receiving the data on the Arduino Have a look at the examples in Serial Input Basics - simple reliable ways to receive data.
If you want to write your own PC program this Python - Arduino demo may help get you started. You can do the same sort of thing with any PC programming language.
...R
Thank you for the help!