Hi, after a long time I am updating my blog again. I bought few nokia color LCDs and resistive touchpad last month, all are chinese clones and very cheap. Then I thought of doing some thing with the touchpad at first. My previous blogpost was a TV remote based computer mouse. So I decided to make a similar stuff using the touchpad and bluetooth...
I have used a cheap ATtiny13 (8pins) microcontroller which runs at internal 9.6MHz clock. It samples two channel analog voltage from the touchpad. One of the GPIO pin is configured as a software uart TX (bit banging) which will stream the mouse data at a baudrate of 115200 (may need to calibrate by changing OCR0A little bit up or down) to a PC via bluetooth (HC_05 bluetooth module). Apart from the mouse cursor movement, I have implemented left click, right click and wheels on the same touch screen.
A python script running on the pc will accept the mouse data and it will process the data and apply a smoothing filter to make the cursor movement more efficient. Right now I did the code for linux but will be easily portable by small modification in the python code.
The only demerit is that we cannot do any multi-touch since it is a resistive touchpad.... Also it is not so easy to use with naked finger, instead a stylus is recommended for smooth operation. But any way in the video demo you can see its working fine with my finger........(I am using my fingernail ;-) ).....
The bottom left part of the touchpad is configured as left click, bottom right as right click and 1 thickness from the right is for mouse wheel ...
https://github.com/vinodstanur/resistive_touchpad_as_wireless_mouse
Code:
Python code for PC:
I have used a cheap ATtiny13 (8pins) microcontroller which runs at internal 9.6MHz clock. It samples two channel analog voltage from the touchpad. One of the GPIO pin is configured as a software uart TX (bit banging) which will stream the mouse data at a baudrate of 115200 (may need to calibrate by changing OCR0A little bit up or down) to a PC via bluetooth (HC_05 bluetooth module). Apart from the mouse cursor movement, I have implemented left click, right click and wheels on the same touch screen.
A python script running on the pc will accept the mouse data and it will process the data and apply a smoothing filter to make the cursor movement more efficient. Right now I did the code for linux but will be easily portable by small modification in the python code.
The only demerit is that we cannot do any multi-touch since it is a resistive touchpad.... Also it is not so easy to use with naked finger, instead a stylus is recommended for smooth operation. But any way in the video demo you can see its working fine with my finger........(I am using my fingernail ;-) ).....
The bottom left part of the touchpad is configured as left click, bottom right as right click and 1 thickness from the right is for mouse wheel ...
Circuit diagram:
Code:
Python code for PC:
Great!!! Thanks for sharing ;-)
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ReplyDeleteWhere you buy this touchpanel ?
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It cool!!!!
ReplyDeleteLook my project
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I want to build devices 'Resistive touch' + 'teensy++' as HID USB Keyboard\Mouse, you can help me this project?
I can't compile the python code under windows , can you give me a compiled version (for windows) or correct the code? The error is on the 27th line.
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nice work @ Green Goo... :-)
ReplyDelete@cece99: I think in 27th line there is some TAB problem. Correct it or download the code from my github repo/copy it from the gist embedded above...
Can this be easily converted to Wacom RF digitizer modules?
ReplyDeleteI suspect that a serial output is necessary for this to work. Correct?
Great project.
Thanks
Nitrous
Hello Vinod,
ReplyDeleteGreat work and more than that is its ingeniousness. I had never thought of using a touch panel to control mouse. I have seen your other projects as well, all of them are unique!! I tried the mouse commands on my computer (using python) and all of them works flawless..
Regards,
Debraj
Wow, thanks for sharing all this information , i wanna try to make this device at this moment, thanks a lot man.
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ReplyDeletehello Vinod, i am impressed from your work. i am working on a project based on ATmega32 and touch screen. I am facing some problem in interfacing it. would you please help me? here is my thread
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Hello, thanks for your projects. But I newbie in AVR..I can't understand how you compile "C" code..Please answer, what program you compile, and can you send the *hex file to me
ReplyDeleteAny thoughts on adapting this to work on an Android phone? I have my phone hooked up to my car in-dash tv and it would be nice to overlay the touchscreen on the car TV (currently no touch screen functionality) and then control my phone via the touchscreen/bluetooth!
ReplyDeleteCool project bro :D what is the touchpad (for what phone?) model and price ?
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ReplyDeletei m not using ATtiny13
ReplyDeleteinsted of that i m using ATmega16
in atmega external crystal is needed....
so can i use 16MHz crystal to run this?
this is great, i got syntax error in line 4 of python code , please help me to resole it . thanks
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ReplyDeletei am nidhin ,i like this project very much,actually i had this idea before,but difference is i decided to use pic18f4550 for usb connection and rest all the same function like sensing co-ordinates of touch point .
i have a doubt on this project
1 . y we cant implement usb mouse(hid class ) on this project making it wired ??
i am new to python programming ,can u please explain python compiling ,which compiler u used in windows7 environment and how to compile it.
thanks in advance
NIDHINDAS T.S(kerala)
Nidhin: You can implement it as wired usb hid using some controller having usb hardware / software usb stack like Vusb for avr.
ReplyDeleteAlso you can implement it as bluetooth HID .
Hi very interesting work!
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to make a basic tutorial on how to start these things.
I've got a samsung corby screen, and want to do something alike.
But I don't know where to start!
Any help is appreciated!!!
I think any contemplations on adjusting this to deal with an Android telephone? I have my telephone snared to my auto in-dash television and it might be decent to overlay the touchscreen on the auto TV (as of now no touch screen practicality) and afterward control my telephone through the touchscreen/bluetooth!
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Hello I was wondering if you could port this to android at all? I know many other people would really like this also! Thank you.
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Where you buy this touchpanel ?
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can we write PC code in Java instead of python
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