Teejusb's FSR Guide

A complete software package for FSR dance pads.
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Features

• React web UI to customize sensitivity
• Profiles & persistence
• Light support

Screenshots

Requirements

• A Teensy or Arduino
  • uses native keyboard library for Arduino and Joystick library for Teensy
• Python 3.6+
  • virtualenv
• Node 12+
  • yarn

Hardware setup

Follow a guide like fsr-pad-guide or fsr to setup your Arduino/Teensy with FSRs.

Firmware setup

1. Install Arduino IDE (skip this if you're using OSX as it's included in Teensyduino)
2. Install Teensyduino and get it connected to your Teensy and able to push firmware via Arduino IDE
3. In Arduinio IDE, set the Tools > USB Type to Serial + Keyboard + Mouse + Joystick (or Serial + Keyboard + Mouse)
4. In Arduinio IDE, set the Tools > Board to your microcontroller (e.g. Teensy 4.0)
5. In Arduinio IDE, set the Tools > Port to select the serial port for the plugged in microcontroller (e.g. COM5 or /dev/something)
6. Copy in the code from fsr.ino
7. By default, A0-A3 are the pins used for the FSR sensors in this software. If you aren't using these pins alter the SensorState array
8. Push the code to the board

Testing and using the serial monitor

1. Open Tools > Serial Monitor to open the Serial Monitor
2. Within the serial monitor, enter t to show current thresholds.
3. You can change a sensor threshold by entering numbers, where the first number is the sensor (0-indexed) followed by the threshold value. For example, 3180 would set the 4th sensor to 180 thresholds. You can change these more easily in the UI later.
4. Enter v to get the current sensor values.
5. Putting pressure on an FSR, you should notice the values change if you enter v again while maintaining pressure.

UI setup

1. Install Python
2. Install Node
   • Install yarn. A quick way to do this is with NPM: npm install -g yarn
3. Within server.py, edit the SERIAL_PORT constant to match the serial port shown in the Arduino IDE (e.g. it might look like "/dev/ttyACM0" or "COM1")
   • You also may need to modify the sensor_numbers variable.
4. Open a command prompt (or terminal) and navigate to ./webui/server with cd webui/server
5. Run python -m venv venv (on Windows you may need to replace python with py)
6. Run venv\Scripts\activate (on Linux you run source venv/bin/activate)
7. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies
8. Then move to the ./webui directory by doing cd ..
9. Run yarn install && yarn build && yarn start-api
   • On Linux, you'll also need to edit the start-api script in ./webui/package.json to reference venv/bin/flask instead of venv/Scripts/flask

The UI should be up and running on http://localhost:5000 and you can use your device IP and the port to reach it from your phone (e.g. http://192.168.0.xxx:5000 )

Troubleshooting

• If you use localhost in your browser and if the UI looks choppy, try using your local IP instead
• If you see the following error, ensure the "Serial Monitor" isn't already open in Arduino IDE serial.serialutil.SerialException: [Errno 16] could not open port /dev/cu.usbmodem83828101: [Errno 16] Resource busy: '/dev/cu.usbmodem83828101
• If you notice that your input is delayed and perhaps that delay increases over time, you can sometimes rectify that by restarting the server. Close your start-api window and run it again.

Tips

Make a desktop shortcut (Windows)

Create a new text file called start_fsrs.bat and place it on your desktop.

start "" http://YOUR_PC_NAME_OR_IP:5000/
cd C:\Users\YourUser\path\to\fsr\webui
yarn start-api

Now you can just click on that file to open the UI and start the server.