Phi-panel backpack face plate

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1. Andrew says:

   June 6, 2012 at 3:35 pm

   Hi,

   Quick question.

   I have the PHI-2 shield and am making the alarm clock.

   Alas I realise I am severly short of buttons and where to put them.

   This pad may be AN answer.

   But the question is: How does it connect to what?

   Does it connect to its own shield, the PHI-2, or the Arduino.

   I shall try to find out more myself, but thought I would ask here as well/first.

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   • liudr says:

     June 6, 2012 at 3:39 pm

     The panel or backpack connects to an arduino via serial port, soft or hard. A microcontroller is controlling the display and keypad on the panel or backpack. So you get a display you can use by just doing serial.print() to it. The onboard microcontroller will update the display if you print to it via serial. And you can read a key press sensed by the microcontroller with serial.read() if serial.available() returns positive (meaning there is a key press waiting to be read).

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