Project Proposal

The more I learn about the arduino and the things it can do, the more I think I should make a controller to work with future projects. Now some of you may be saying the the arduino is a controller on its own but I think that a wearable controller would prove to be very beneficial. This wearable controller will consist of 3 linear potentiometer and 4 buttons. I also had it on my mind to add a touch pad and a OLED screen but that might be too ambitious for this stage of the project, depending on how I progress I may choose to add them and make a some sort of makeshift GUI to go along with it. In replacement I will use a joystick instead of a touch pad and the mac or whatever computer I am using, as output.

The main use of linear potentiometers is to control sound or lights. I want to make it possible to control both from a single device. Although only 3 linear potentiometer will be on the device with proper programing it can be as many as one needs with use of the buttons. The way this would work will simply be by having one of the buttons be used as a sort of lock. In lock mode the linear potentiometers will not be able to give input to the device. This allows the user to be able to switch to another mode and control more things from the same device. This does bring up a problem, how will switching back to another mode affect the positions of the linear potentiometers? As of right now I don’t know. This could very well cause my the program to crash but I hope not. A true solution would be if the linear potentiometer would move by itself to the settings it had before the lock was added but I don’t know if a linear potentiometer can include some sort of motor.