I have a project that I’ve been trying to work on for some time and I keep getting confused on how it should be set up. Here is what I have and what I’m trying to do:
Arduino Uno
El Escudo Dos with 12 v inverter
3 - 10 position rotary switches (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13253) soldered to breakout boards (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13098)
EL Wire
I’ve done a test and the EL Wire cycles fine so it appears I’ve hooked up the inverter and escudo on the arduino correctly.
The end result is going to be to use the rotary switches to control a play kitchen stove (2 for burners and 1 for the oven element). The EL Wire will be the burner elements which will glow when the switches are turned on. I chose a 10 position switch mainly because the oven dials that I have have 10 levels marked on them, but I’m only going to have it be that the burner is off or on (but I wanted a switch that could rotate quite a bit). Maybe if I get this working, I can try and tweak it so that the EL Wire dims a bit on lower settings and is brighter on higher settings, but that is pie in the sky now.
So, my question is, how do I hook up the rotary switches to the arduino/escudo? Would they connect to a digital input or analog? Once I have the circuit down, I think I can probably figure out the programming inside the arduino.
Thanks for any help!
Jared