Library for the Arduino NanoPlayBoard

This library enables easy access to the sensors and actuators of the Arduino NanoPlayBoard. The Arduino NanoPlayBoard is a board designed by Antonio Morales and it was designed for an introductory workshop about soldering organized by HackLab Almería. You can see the gallery of images here.

This board may be an excellent educational resource for those students who want to learn basic electronic and programming.

The sensors available on the board are a light sensor and a potentiometer.
The actuators available on the board are a 7x5 matrix LED, a RGB LED and a piezo buzzer.

For more information about the board please visit us at:

• http://github.com/AntonioMR/Nano-Play-Board

For more information about the project please visit us at:

• http://nanoplayboard.org

PCB

Upperside

Underside

Installation

Using the Library Manager

• Open the Arduino IDE and select Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries.
• Search NanoPlayBoard in the Library Manger.
• Select the version of the library you want to install.
• Click on install and wait for the IDE to install the new library.

Importing a .zip Library

• Download the library.
• Open the Arduino IDE and select Sketch > Include Library > Add .ZIP Library.
• Restart the Arduino IDE.

Examples

Once the library has been successfully installed, the example sketches will be available in the IDE.

• Select File > Examples > NanoPlayBoard.

Quick start

Include the library and declare a NanoPlayBoard object.

#include <NanoPlayBoard.h>

NanoPlayBoard board;

...

Potentiometer

• read

int value = board.potentiometer.read();

• scaleTo

int value = board.potentiometer.scaleTo(0, 99);

LDR

• read

int value = board.ldr.read();

• scaleTo

int value = board.ldr.scaleTo(0, 99);

Buzzer

• playTone

board.buzzer.playTone(440);

• stopTone

board.buzzer.stopTone();

LED RGB

• setColor

board.rgb.setColor(255, 0, 0);

You can use hexadecimal color strings with or without leading #.

board.rgb.setColor("#FF0000");
board.rgb.setColor("FF0000");  

• setIntensity

board.rgb.setIntensity(25);

• on

board.rgb.on();

• off

board.rgb.off();

• toggle

board.rgb.toggle();

LED Matrix

• print

board.ledmatrix.print("H o l a  m u n d o!");

• setScrollSpeed

board.ledmatrix.setScrollSpeed(10);
board.ledmatrix.print("H o l a  m u n d o!");

The library allows you to control the scroll speed that is used to display the text on the led matrix.

• printNumber

board.ledmatrix.printNumber(99);

Libraries used in this project

• Arduino library for the DHT series of low cost temperature/humidity sensors.
• Software I2C Arduino library.
• NewPing Arduino library.

Credits

This library has been developed by Antonio Morales and José Juan Sánchez.

License

Copyright 2016 Antonio Morales and José Juan Sánchez

Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.