User input features of the fan
• Potentiometer for speed control
❖ Continually variable input makes sense for speed control
❖ Previously discussed
• Start/stop
❖ Could use a conventional power switch
❖ Push button (momentary) switch
• Lock or limit rotation angle
❖ Button click to hold/release fan in one position
❖ Potentiometer to set range limit
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Conventional on/off switch
Basic light switch or rocker switch
❖ Makes or breaks connection to power
❖ Switch stays in position: On or Off
❖ Toggle position indicates the state
❖ NOT in the Arduino Inventors Kit
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How does a button work?
• Simple switch schematic
• Use DMM to measure open/closed circuit
• Map the pin states
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Measure Open and Closed Circuits
Measured Resistance (Ω)
Connect When not
Pins pressed When pressed
1 and 2
1 and 3
1 and 4
2 and 3
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Measure Open and Closed Circuits
Data from Measurements: Sketch Connections:
Measured Resistance (Ω)
Connect When not
Pins pressed When pressed
1 and 2
1 and 3
1 and 4
2 and 3
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Push Button Switches
• A momentary button is a “Biased Switch”
• Pushing the button changes state
• State is reversed (return to biased position) when button is
released
• Two types
• NO: normally open
• NC: normally closed
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Momentary or push-button switches
• Normally open
❖ electrical contact is made when button is pressed
• Normally closed
❖ electrical contact is broken when button is pressed
• Internal spring returns button to its un-pressed state
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Putting buttons into action
1. Build the circuit: same one is used for all examples
a. Test with LED on/off
b. LED is only controlled by the button, not by Arduino code
2. Create a “wait to start” button
a. Simplest button implementation
b. Execution is blocked while waiting for a button click
3. Use an interrupt handler
a. Most sophisticated: Don’t block execution while waiting for
button input
b. Most sophisticated: Requires good understanding of coding
c. Requires “de-bouncing”
d. Not too hard to use as a black box
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Momentary Button and LED Circuit
Digital input with a pull-down
resistor
❖ When switch is open (button not
pressed):
‣ Digital input pin is tied to ground
‣ No current flows, so there is no voltage
difference from input pin to ground
‣ Reading on digital input is LOW
❖ When switch is closed (button is
pressed):
‣ Current flows from 5V to ground, causing
LED to light up.
‣ The 10k resistor limits the current draw by
the input pin.
‣ The 330Ω resistor causes a large voltage
drop between 5V and ground, which
LWTL: Button Input causes the digital input pin to be closer to 9
Technical Note
Usually we do not include an LED directly in the button
circuit. The following diagrams show plan button circuits
with pull-up and pull-down resistors. In these
applications, the pull-up or pull-down resistors should be
10k. Refer to Lady Ada Tutorial #5:
❖ http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson5.html
Pull-up
resistor:
Pull-down
resistor:
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Programs for the LED/Button Circuit
1. Continuous monitor of button state
❖ Program is completely occupied by monitoring the button
❖ Used as a demonstration — not practically useful
2. Wait for button input
3. Interrupt Handler
4. All three programs use the same electrical circuit
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Continuous monitor of button state
int button_pin = 4; // pin used to read the button
void setup() {
pinMode( button_pin, INPUT);
Serial.begin(9600); // Button state is sent to host
}
void loop() {
int button;
button = digitalRead( button_pin );
if ( button == HIGH ) {
Serial.println("on"); Serial monitor shows
} else {
Serial.println("off"); a continuous stream
} of “on” or “off”
}
This program does not control the LED
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Programs for the LED/Button Circuit
1. Continuous monitor of button state
❖ Program is completely occupied by monitoring the button
❖ Used as a demonstration — not practically useful
2. Wait for button input
❖ Blocks execution while waiting
❖ May be useful as a start button
3. Interrupt Handler
4. All three programs use the same electrical circuit
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Wait for button input
int button_pin = 4; // pin used to read the button
void setup() {
int start_click = LOW; // Initial state: no click yet
pinMode( button_pin, INPUT);
Serial.begin(9600); while loop
continues as long
while ( !start_click ) {
start_click = digitalRead( button_pin ); as start_click is
Serial.println("Waiting for button press"); FALSE
}
}
Same loop() function
void loop() {
int button;
as in the preceding
sketch
button = digitalRead( button_pin );
if ( button == HIGH ) {
Serial.println("on");
} else {
Serial.println("off");
}
}
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Programs for the LED/Button Circuit
1. Continuous monitor of button state
❖ Program is completely occupied by monitoring the button
❖ Used as a demonstration — not practically useful
2. Wait for button input
❖ Blocks execution while waiting
❖ May be useful as a start button
3. Interrupt Handler
❖ Most versatile
❖ Does not block execution
❖ Interrupt is used to change a flag that indicates state
❖ Regular code in loop function checks the sate of the flag
4. All three programs use the same electrical circuit
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Interrupt handler for button input
int button_interrupt = 0; // Interrupt 0 is on pin 2 !!
int toggle_on = false; // Button click switches state
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
attachInterrupt( button_interrupt, handle_click, RISING); // Register handler
}
void loop() {
if ( toggle_on ) {
Serial.println("on");
} else {
Serial.println("off");
}
}
void handle_click() {
static unsigned long last_interrupt_time = 0; // Zero only at start
unsigned long interrupt_time = millis(); // Read the clock
if ( interrupt_time - last_interrupt_time > 200 ) { // Ignore when < 200 msec
toggle_on = !toggle_on;
}
last_interrupt_time = interrupt_time;
}
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Interrupt handler for button input
int button_interrupt = 0; // Interrupt 0 is on pin 2 !!
int toggle_on = false; // Button click switches state
Interrupt handler must be registered when program
void setup() { starts
Serial.begin(9600);
attachInterrupt( button_interrupt, handle_click, RISING); // Register handler
}
button_interrupt is the ID or
number of loop()
void the interrupt.
{ It must be A RISING interrupt occurs when the
0 or 1 if ( toggle_on ) { pin changes from LOW to HIGH
Serial.println("on");
} else {
Serial.println("off"); The interrupt handler,
}
}
handle_click, is a user-written
function that is called when an
void handle_click() { interrupt is detected
static unsigned long last_interrupt_time = 0; // Zero only at start
unsigned long interrupt_time = millis(); // Read the clock
if ( interrupt_time - last_interrupt_time > 200 ) { // Ignore when < 200 msec
toggle_on = !toggle_on;
}
last_interrupt_time = interrupt_time;
}
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Interrupt handler for button input
int button_interrupt = 0; // Interrupt 0 is on pin 2 !!
int toggle_on = false; // Button click switches state
toggle_on is a global variable that
void setup() { remembers the “state”. It is either true or
Serial.begin(9600);
attachInterrupt( button_interrupt, handle_click,false (1 or 0).
RISING); // Register handler
}
void loop() {
if ( toggle_on ) { The loop() function only checks the
Serial.println("on");
} else { state of toggle_on. The value of
Serial.println("off"); toggle_on is set in the interrupt
} handler, handle_click.
}
void handle_click() {
static unsigned long last_interrupt_time = 0; // Zero only at start
unsigned long interrupt_time = millis(); // Read the clock
if ( interrupt_time - last_interrupt_time > 200 ) { // Ignore when < 200 msec
toggle_on = !toggle_on;
} The value of toggle_on is flipped only
when a true interrupt even occurs. De-
last_interrupt_time = interrupt_time;
} bouncing is described in the next slide.
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Interrupt handler for button input
int button_interrupt = 0; // Interrupt 0 is on pin 2 !!
int toggle_on = false; // Button click switches state
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
attachInterrupt( button_interrupt, handle_click, RISING); // Register handler
}
Value of a static variable is always
void loop() { retained
if ( toggle_on ) { Use long: the time value in
Serial.println("on");
} else { milliseconds can become
Serial.println("off"); large
} Clock time when current interrupt
}
occurs
void handle_click() { Ignore events that occur in less than
200 msec from each other. These
static unsigned long last_interrupt_time = 0; // Zero only at start
unsigned long interrupt_time = millis(); are likely
// Readtothe
be clock
mechanical bounces.
if ( interrupt_time - last_interrupt_time > 200 ) { // Ignore when < 200 msec
toggle_on = !toggle_on;
}
last_interrupt_time = interrupt_time;
Save current time as the new “last”
} time
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