I just received an inexpensive keypad from SparkFun the other day and have attempted to hook it up with no such luck yet. I’m hoping I am just being stupid about the whole thing. I grabbed the Keypad Library from the Arduino Playground and set the correct pins according to the Arduino tutorial. No such [...]
Posted in Arduino, C/C++, LCD, RFID on April 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
Well, the new LCD4×40Bit-ShiftReg library is working quite well. I’m actually thinking about changing the actual name of the library but figure the above is too long. Maybe I should try something like LCD3Wire4×40 or something. Your thought are greatly appreciated!
So anyway, I added my Parallax RFID card to the setup and finally worked out [...]
Posted in Arduino, C/C++, RFID on April 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
So I got a reply from John Ryan on the Arduino forums and he mentioned that I would need to use an interrupt to grab RFID data to ensure it did not stop my program while waiting for a tag. I banged my head around with the implementation of interrupt code but found a solution [...]
Posted in Arduino, Parallax, RFID on April 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
So I’ve been playing around with the Arduino now for a month or two and trying to interface it with a few of the Parallax accessories I have lying around. I’ve been meaning to post stuff here the whole time but was lazy. Anyway, here is some modified Wiring code for Arduino to use the [...]