trackpad_for_snowboard: code for capacitive trackpad for snowboard

This example shows you how to read and visualize xy touch data from capacitive trackpad for Snowboard.

Required Hardware and Software

• Snowboard

• Capacitive Trackpad for Snowboard

• Processing

Connection

Connect the trackpad to Snowboard as shown below.

Upload Firmware

1. Run Arduino IDE

2. In Tools-Board, choose Arduino Leonardo

3. In Tools-Port, choose an appropriate port which your Snowboard is attached.

4. Go to File-Examples-Snowboard and choose trackpad_for_snowboard to open the example.

5. Switch to the example and click the upload button.

6. The firmware will output touch data whose data structure is same with that of Snowpad. Run touchplot.pde by consulting this link at readsnowpad: code to read multi-touch data

The coordinate of the trackpad is as follows:

Arduino code

/*

trackpad_for_snowboard.ino

Single touch trackpad example for Snowboard.

This example requires:

* Snowboard http://www.kitronyx.com/snowboard.html

* Capacitive trackpad for Snowboard http://www.kitronyx.com/store/p7/Capacitive_Trackpad_for_Snowboard.html

Copyright (c) 2014 Kitronyx http://www.kitronyx.com

GPL V3.0

*/

#include <Wire.h>

#include <Snowtouch.h>

Snowtouch snowtouch;

#define NROW 5

#define NCOL 7

#define TOUCH_RESOLUTION 4096

long baseline[12] = {0, };

long reading[12] = {0, };

int threshold = 10;

int touchid = 0;

int pen = 1;

int touchx;

int touchy;

void setup()

{

int i, j;

Serial.begin(115200);

Wire.begin();

snowtouch.begin();

// wait till MPR121 is stabilized.

delay(100);

// scan base line

int nsum = 5;

for (i = 0; i < nsum; i++)

{

snowtouch.read();

for (j = 0; j < 12; j++)

{

baseline[j] += snowtouch.getTouch(j);

}

}

for (i = 0; i < 12; i++)

{

baseline[i] = baseline[i] / 5;

Serial.println(baseline[i]);

}

}

void loop()

{

int i, j;

long numx = 0;

long denx = 0;

long numy = 0;

long deny = 0;

bool touched = false;

snowtouch.read();

// get touch data (touched signal is large)

for (i = 0; i < 12; i++)

{

reading[i] = baseline[i] - snowtouch.getTouch(i);

if (reading[i] < 0) reading[i] = 0;

}

// check touch

for (i = 0; i < 12; i++)

{

if (reading[i] > threshold)

{

touched = true;

break;

}

}

if (touched == true)

{

// compute x and y position.

for (i = 0; i < NROW; i++)

{

for (j = 0; j < NCOL; j++)

{

numx += reading[5 + j] * j;

denx += reading[5 + j];

numy += reading[4 - i] * i;

deny += reading[4 - i];

}

}

numx *= TOUCH_RESOLUTION;

denx *= NCOL - 1;

numy *= TOUCH_RESOLUTION;

deny *= NROW - 1;

touchx = numx / denx;

touchy = numy / deny;

// output touch data to be used touchplot.pde

// http://sites.kitronyx.com/wiki/snowpad/examples/readsnowpad-code-to-read-multi-touch-data#TOC-Visualization

Serial.print(touchid);

Serial.print(",");

Serial.print(pen);

Serial.print(",");

Serial.print(touchx);

Serial.print(",");

Serial.println(touchy);

}

else

{

Serial.print(0);

Serial.print(",");

Serial.print(0);

Serial.print(",");

Serial.print(0);

Serial.print(",");

Serial.println(0);

}

}