Input Devices

Working fine / First try

This week I was really strugling with the soldering, because I choose to build my own arduino board to use an input device. I took the schematics of the FabKit and add a LED and a 6 pins connector for connect it to the fabISP.



I tried to modify it directly in Illustrator because it's a much more user-friendly software than eagle, but I discovered that it does weird stuff such as adding grey pixels on the borders with the .png format. So the milling wasn't good at all. I decided to do it again the right way, with Eagle.



That times I had an error because my board wasn't recognize, even after I checked all the solderings. I think the files provided for the FabKit had a problem and I didn't changed them enough.



Then I tried to use the board I made few weeks before (with the AtTiny44) to use the button as an input device, but I get an error saying "Serial is not declared in this scope" because I wanted to connect Arduino to Processing but it seems an AtTiny44 can't do that.



Anyways my code is ready to be use when my board will be working. The code is storing pixels by colors and then convert the value of a proximetre into how much stored pixels will be on the screen. So when you are far, you just see a rainbow pictures and while you are going closer the images reveals itself.