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C Programming for Arduino

By : Julien Bayle
Book Image

C Programming for Arduino

By: Julien Bayle

Overview of this book

Physical computing allows us to build interactive physical systems by using software & hardware in order to sense and respond to the real world. C Programming for Arduino will show you how to harness powerful capabilities like sensing, feedbacks, programming and even wiring and developing your own autonomous systems. C Programming for Arduino contains everything you need to directly start wiring and coding your own electronic project. You'll learn C and how to code several types of firmware for your Arduino, and then move on to design small typical systems to understand how handling buttons, leds, LCD, network modules and much more. After running through C/C++ for the Arduino, you'll learn how to control your software by using real buttons and distance sensors and even discover how you can use your Arduino with the Processing framework so that they work in unison. Advanced coverage includes using Wi-Fi networks and batteries to make your Arduino-based hardware more mobile and flexible without wires. If you want to learn how to build your own electronic devices with powerful open-source technology, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C Programming for Arduino
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Playing with multiple buttons


We can extrapolate our previously designed logic with more than one switch.

There are many ways to use multiple switches, and, in general, multiple inputs on the Arduino. We're going to see a cheap and easy first way right now. This way doesn't involve multiplexing a lot of inputs on only a couple of Arduino inputs but a basic one to one wiring where each switch is wired to one input. We'll learn multiplexing a bit later (in the next chapter).

The circuit

Following is the circuit diagram required to work with multiple switches:

Wiring three momentary switches to the Arduino board

The schematic is an extrapolation of the previous one that showed only one switch. We can see the three switches between the +5 V and the three pull-down resistors. Then we can also see the three wires going to digital inputs 2 to 4 again.

Here is a small memory refresh: Why didn't I use the digital pins 0 or 1?

Because I'm using serial communication from the Arduino, we cannot use the digital...