Resources¶

• Resources
  • Moving from keyboard to joystick interface
  • Dealing with Data/Signals
  • Sensors considered

Moving from keyboard to joystick interface¶

• Support thread on joysticks and CHIP plus NodeBots
• Turning an Arduino Leonardo into a joystick
• USB Host Shield
• Gameport to USB Joystick using 32U4
• How to sign Windows drivers and executables

Dealing with Data/Signals¶

• USB Tester from Adafruit - might be useful for later prototype development
• Data Smoothing - Arduino tutorial dealing with smoothing out noisy data

Sensors considered¶

• Rotary Encoders
• Homemade Rotary Encoder - used in very first prototype, but quickly abandoned because the mechanical interface was difficult to maintain
• Reed switch (Link 1 | Link 2) - v0.1 and v0.2 used reed switches (originally off of an old Bike Computer, now purpose selected)
• Hall Effect Sensor - under consideration for v0.3
  • Arduino Playground
  • Blog post covering three types of Hall Effect Sensors - this is a very good resource, especially with respect to the types of sensors to consider
  • Arduino post on using Hall Effect sensor to measure RPM
  • Forum post about measuring RPM and resetting to 0 when motion stops - lengthy discussion and covers many of our goals
  • Forum post about calculating RPM on a bike - not really enough details here, but still documenting it