Program Button

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• Threeethan

  February 2014

  Hi there mbsurfer -
  
  Yes you can definitely program the button by the arduino method. You can find the code for the brightness changing in the factory firmware sketch, here: https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/BlinkyTape/blob/master/ProductionSketch/ProductionSketch.ino
  
  Here's an example that uses an interrupt and some debounce code to watch the button: https://gist.github.com/Threeethan/8772775
  
  Last, make sure you've read through the docs for programming BlinkyTape with Arduino: http://blinkinlabs.com/blinkytape/docs/arduino/
• mbsurfer

  February 2014

  Awesome news! It may be a dumb question, but is it possible to program that same button in Processing and/or Python?
• Xan

  February 2014

  mbsurfer, no, since it happens on the BlinkyTape side. You could make a firmware that writes something back to the host when you click it, and then do something on the host side in Processing/Python, but you have to touch the firmware to allow this.
• Threeethan

  February 2014

  +1 - thanks for helping out Xan. It should definitely be possible to send something from the firmware back to Processing, but it would require some firmware development.
  
  Actually, it's probably something we should add to the serial communication protocol...
• Xan

  February 2014

  If you do that, it will screw with existing libraries though.