hi im strugaling to get my arduino to type a key on the computer. i am new at using arduinos and i hear there are multaple steps involved but i dont have the slightest idea how to go about doing this. i got my arduino to display text in the serial monitor but it doesnt work for controling a game. i need somethong that would type stuff in a word document or something like that. thanks.
Well, since you (finally) started a new thread...
Take a look at the GoBetwino library.
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/GoBetwino
It does exactly what you want to do, for entering text in word documents or data in excel spread sheets.
Controlling games is a completely different task, though. Depending on how the game interacts with the keyboard, it may or may not be possible to make the Arduino control it.
Why are you creating new topics with the same tings over and over?
You already asked about this twice, and didn't even follow up on any of the other.
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1272161004
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1272160006
using gobetwinowould mean learning a whole diferent programing language. any way i could do this with just arduino?
as a reply to bld because i did look thrue the replys and i didnt find anything that works for what i need
using gobetwinowould mean learning a whole diferent programing language.
No, it wouldn't. It would require that you learn about what commands you need to send to the application you want to control.
If you don't want to use the GoBetwino library, that's fine. You can accomplish the same thing using just the Arduino.
Get yourself one of these:
http://www.lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx?productID=4&CategoryID
Write some code to make it push any d a m n button on your keyboard.
... because you never followed up on them, to me it looks like the question you just asked again, already got the same ansawer that you got here http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1272161004, but that decided to ignore(?). When thinking on the thread about "if", I get the feeling that you are looking for a copy/paste solution, where you don't have to do much research to get it working?
@paul s ok how do i use gobetweeno. is it a language whos coad can be uploaded on to the arduino?
Go to the website
Press "download here"
Press "Download Gobetwino 0.5"
Unpack the zip file
Navigate to "samples"
Read the "Using the Gobetwino sample code.pdf"
k thanks
so i used gobetwino tried to get it working no luck at all. i read every manual, every coment, done eerything i still cant get gobetwino to work. anyone have tips or code?
go to school
what?
Did you configure the settings in GoBetwino ? (especially the serial port settings)
Can you get some of the sample code that is provided with the download to work ?
Does anything at all show up in the top text area in GoBetwino when you send commands from your Arduino code ?
i configured the setings, i tried the sample code, and the only thing that apears is "4/28/2010 4:34:15 PM Serial port : COM5 opened at 9600 baud"