DIY Arduino Buttonbox

Dear friends,
Perfect project!
Can someone help me.
I don t need 25 pushbuttons. I need 5 rotary encoders. Can someone look and make change to use 5 rotary encoders ?
Best regard

Hi,
I have a problem. I have a Buttonbox connected according to the schematic, but only 3 encoders work from 4. How can I solve this problem?
Thank you.

I have solved the problem.

Hello friends ! Does a button boxes work on PS4? Recognized as a keyboard?

Hi @Claudemir

Sorry, I don't have PS4 so I can't check it

Hi,

Thank you very much for your work and I would like to ask you how I could wire EC11 Rotary Encoder
to use the encoder button.
I mean when I press the whole encoder to make it as other button.

Thanks
Best regards

Lukas

Hi Lukas

An encoder with button has 5 legs - 3 legs for encoder and 2 leg (on the opposite side) for a button. So just wire those 2 legs like a normal button

Cheers!

Thanks for your reply !

I did it at first, but it didn´t work I think.
I will give it other try.

Have you some hints to make the layout for buttons and wires ?
I´m confused
Also I wanted to design PCB and let them produce.

Thanks
All the best

Lukas

Well, my layouts are in the OP...
Good luck with PCB producing!

Hi, thanks for that great project. I´m trying to make one. But, where can I download the layouts for make pcb?.What is OP?? Sorry for my poor english and thanks in advance

Best Regards
Dualin

Hi @dualin

there is sample schematic in the my first post which you can use as a reference. It shows how to wire and connect buttons and encoders to arduino board. In general, you don't need PCB, only if you want to have more comfy connectors and so on..

Ah! ok, I asked because i have made a button box with the connections like your schematics and doesn't work fine. I use 16 buttons, 4x4, the buttons work, but all the buttons in a row show the same button in Windows joystick panel, then i have only 4 buttons instead of 16....
I have tried all the things that i can, but doesn't work. I dont know what happen.

Thanks and best regards
Dualin

Hi @dualin

It seems something wrong in your wiring or soldering, can it be you mistakenly wire all buttons in a row also in one column? Hard to say exactly what is wrong without physical access to your device. May be you can show a picture of your wiring?

Good job

thanks for tuto i try to do my first button box and your tuto is great to do it ;-)

Hello all guys,

i have use 02c version but i have a problem...everything works fine but i can't find where is button No1....can you help please?

Hi @f1simgames

there are 2 lines in the sketch:
byte rowPins[NUMROWS] = {21,20,19,18,15}; //connect to the row pinouts of the keypad
byte colPins[NUMCOLS] = {14,16,10,9,8}; //connect to the column pinouts of the keypad

1st line containts pins used for rows and 2nd line - for columns.
So very 1st button will be that which is connected to 21 & 14 pins

And please use 2d version because its better

when i try to compile 2D i get this...

Arduino: 1.8.2 (Windows 7), Board: "Arduino Leonardo"

buttsimpjoy_02d:121: error: 'JOYSTICK_DEFAULT_REPORT_ID' was not declared in this scope

Joystick_ Joystick(JOYSTICK_DEFAULT_REPORT_ID,

^

buttsimpjoy_02d:122: error: 'JOYSTICK_TYPE_JOYSTICK' was not declared in this scope

JOYSTICK_TYPE_JOYSTICK, 34, 0,

^

exit status 1
'JOYSTICK_DEFAULT_REPORT_ID' was not declared in this scope

I want, I hope there are many programs, thank you.

used this to make my buttonplate.. seems to work well !! Also included the switch function of the encoders, giving me a total of 12 pusbuttons and 3 encoder functions. Thanks !