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What Is It?
You may have heard about the popular kit named
, in which many stuffs are
used as touch keyboards. There are quite a lot of videos showing how interesting projects it can
make including games, work, etc. In fact, the
is a simple circuit board that
makes almost everything an input device for the computer. Therefore, stairs can be used as
piano keys, a banana as a keyboard, some play-doh to make a gamepad, even your family
members to do a synthesizer. It makes our life colorful and full of joy!
Now, what's amazing is that you can also make it with an Arduino board and
SunFounder
FruitKey
!
The
SunFounder
FruitKey
is a USB keyboard-simulating control board designed for Arduino. You
can realize the
’s functions with an Arduino board. It can turn fruits, stairs,
play-doh, animals, tables, leaves, or even a pencil drawing into keyboard or gamepad. Just
connect it to some bananas
, you can get a banana piano
; connect it to
some play-doh
, you will get a gamepad
; draw buttons on a paper with a pencil
, then you turn this paper into a controller for the
Pac-Man
.
The
SunFounder
FruitKey
works with the SunFounder Mars, SunFounder Uno, also the official
Arduino Uno and the Leonardo board. The
SunFounder
Mars
is a self-designed microcontroller
compatible with the Arduino Uno in functionality and performance.
Note
:
Here we take the
SunFounder Mars
as an example, and other boards work the same
way.
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