Hi all, Is there any way to use the Arduino to monitor input from multiple switches? Say 12 in total? My NG board only has 5 analog inputs. What I'm looking for is keyboard-type behaviour from the switches. I want to be able to capture key down and key up events, and check for key combinations, i.…

Read from multiple switches?

system October 12, 2007, 10:29am 8

You could use the 4051 to (de)multiplex your digital i/O pins.

Hey mikmo - did you really mean that the 4051 can also mux/demux digital inputs? are you sure?

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