Newb: Methods of Toggle Switch to Momentary Button for Gaming

[alto777]

@dguion1337

I’m thinking of doing this with hardware getting an ON-On toggle with a relay and capacitor to make it a momentary button.

No no no. Software easier here, def.

Switches that stay where you put them can be used in your button matrix as long as all the switches are diode isolated.

Google diode isolated matrix or start here

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/button-pad-hookup-guide/background

In your software you catch the fact that the switch has changed, and simulate that some button or other has been pressed.

It's not ideal, as a button that meant on/off wouldn't necessarily match the physical position of a toggle switch up/down. That may be a problem sometimes if everyone doesn't start on the same page so to speak.

Search these fora. I've contributed to this and similar problems recently

  toggle @alto777

I found this

Using a toggle switch for a single key press.

I am trying to set up a toggle switch that will press 'T' when flipped on and 'T' when flipped off (there is a gif attached that illustrates what I am trying to accomplish). I have gotten my code to recognize the state change, but the output acts like the 'T' button is being held down instead of pressed once. Serial monitor was added in to show that it does recognize the state change. My code is below: #include <Keyboard.h> const int toggle1 = 8; int toggle1State = 0; int lastToggle1State = 0;…

which might be thought food, see if.

HTH

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