Hello everybody,
First to say that I'm a noob with microcontrollers.
I am working with a custom made Qtouch board based on Atmel SAMD21J18B chip. As Atmel START and Qtouch Composer are not properly working on my PC, for my projects I am using an example code where I manually change the number of keys, sliders and adjusting their parameters. As actuators I mainly use LEDs that are being controlled by the touch sensors.
For a current project I would want to "integrate" the LEDs into the touch sensors to serve for indication. This will make my circuit pretty complex though so I came up with the idea to use the LEDs themselves as touch sensors.
I would like to ask if it is possible to reconfigure a single pin within the program changing its direction from output (driving a LED) to input (a capacitive sensor) and/or back to output?
The idea is that the LED (or the wire to it) will only be used as a sensor when the LED is turned off (no current is flowing).
An example scenario would be:
- pin configuration as output
- LED turns on
- in 500ms LED turns back off
- pin configuration as a capacitive sensor
- start reading loop until sensor (LED wire) is touched
- do some processing
- repeat from beginning
2. Where in the automatically generated Qtouch code is the configuration of the pin as a sensor done?
Thank you in advance!
Regards,
Steliyan