so I built her a "Button Box" based around an Arduino. Open source, hackable, and made by hand. This post is just a quick summary - I'll be doing a much more in depth blog post about it at some ...

You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the button is not pressed and 1 that the button is ...

The button states could easily be read by using an Arduino’s analog input. A Pro Mini model was chosen for its small size as it could be housed in the radio compartment of the dash. The next ...

The Firmata block (Firmata is a protocol for communicating ... the pin show up on the Firmata component I wired two buttons connecting an Arduino’s pins 7 and 8 to ground, each with a 10K ...