Using Laptop Keyboard to Trigger Interrupt

[alto777]

@natefrench

control the arduino via the laptop

This is not hard. Your description didn't seem to be asking after that; the product I linked is totally off topic.

You can talk and listen to the Arduino from the PC using a terminal emulator, or a program you write for the PC that uses serial communications.

Start with PuTTY or CoolTerm, respected terminal programs.

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Serial Input Basics - updated

Updated Version Please note that this is a revised version of the advice in this earlier Thread which has become very long. As far as possible I have kept the code examples identical or simplifed them slightly. It should not be necessary to refer to the older Thread, but feel free to do so. Contents The following sections are in this Tutorial Introduction Serial data is slow by Arduino standards Example 1 - Receiving single characters Why code is organized into functions Exampl…

For smarter stuff on the PC or MacOS side, look into Processing:

Visualization with Processinf and Arduino.

As for buttons without interrupts, work through the basic examples on offer in the Arduino IDE. You will see no mention of interrupts while you program buttons and LEDs to do, well, just about anything you could think of.

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