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I need help from the community. This is my first project using Arduino boards let alone electronics.
So any help with my button box project would go a long away. I busy building a button box for my sim rig. I have attached the images of a mock of the joining panels front and back, but I need help with the right way to wire it as well as setting up the board so windows lets me map the buttons etc In game. If anyone is willing to go out of their way to help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Forgot to mentions I have a Leonardo board.
I’m about to log off for the night but I can tell you you are going to need either an Arduino Pro Micro or an Arduino Leonardo as they have the ability to be seen as peripherals like keyboards and mice.
As for the wiring, you may want to look at parallel-in Serial-out shift registers. These only require 3 pins and can be expanded for however many switches or buttons you have. Note they are input only.
The best place to start would be some of the built-in example sketches that come with the Arduino software. Look at how to read a button and how to debounce a button. It works for switches too.
Next get one of the Arduinos I mentioned above and try its example sketches to where it acts as a keyboard or mouse.
You may want to play with the shift registers too. Just look up examples others have written.
Finally put it all together and test each part along the way.
I would recommend you get a copy of the Arduino Cookbook and read it from cover to cover, it will help bring you up to speed on the Arduino in a relative short time.
Many book sellers have it or will get it for you. You can get it on or there is a good chance your local library has it. I believe here are now three versions of it, any version will be a big help. A link to a free copy was posted about 6 weeks ago. A little bit of work with your search engine will find many sources for you.
