I realized it when the PCBs come, two weeks later, so I was a little bit annoyed. Because i was in a hurry the second time, I used the wrong PCB thickness of the board and ordered 1.2 mm PCBs. I ordered it from a very cheap PCB manufacturer, I had some problems with their web, and I had to do the order it 2 times. It uses the Arduino ADCTouch library that uses a simple trick to detect a change in capacitance in an ADC input of the microcontroller that is connected to a copper plane.īefore prototyping I wanted to test the PCB connectors first, because I have some footprint variants and I didn't know which one was the best.įor that reason I made a test PCB with 8 footprint variants, 3 for the micro b connector and 5 for the type c connector. In order to save even more money i decided to use capacitive touch buttons (free buttons!), using the PCB copper as base for the buttons and the change of capacitance of a copper pad with the closeness of a finger for detecting a press. Thanks to this connector you can use it as USB device, and if you add the use of the ArduinoJoystickLibrary you have the ingredients for a PCB gamepad. Using a PCB thickness of 0.6 mm (the thiner the card, the better for your wallet) and the USB PCB connector Eagle library, you can imitate the mid plate of a real USB micro B receptacle, so it can be used with the widely available USB to micro USB cable to connect the card to a PC. The main inovation of this project is the use of a USB micro B PCB connector (free connector!). The project is a mixture between an Eagle project for the PCB and an Arduino project for the software part, that makes a business card that can be used also as a game controller hooked up to a PC. This project is about making a PCB business card that can be used as a game controller. The idea of this project is to make a business card, but a real one, a slim card that you can have in your wallet to show how cool are you, and play some games.
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