MyoWare EMG sensor computer mouse clicking

Posted by: @gusmill33

@will the MPU6050 Library by electronic cats.

OK, thanks.

@will Yup!

@gusmill33 I like the Adafruit library more.

@will Simple enough to delete them after, but to each his own.

Posted by: @zander

@will Simple enough to delete them after, but to each his own.

The problem is identifying which ones were added. I don't want to zip the library beforehand so that I can restore it to its original state afterwards.

@will Just the MPU6050 library was used.

Posted by: @gusmill33

@will Just the MPU6050 library was used.

Well, I'm having problems because the IDE is telling me that Mouse is undefined. It seems that I'm missing the mouse code even after downloading it again from the repository.

I'm kind of stuck here now.

Edit - I've discovered that Mouse isn't available on all boards ... 

Edit 2 - switched to Leonardo and can now compile (whew !)

@will Oh. I also believe I am using the USBHost library. Here https://github.com/arduino-libraries/USBHost  . I am sorry I forgot to mention this earlier.

Edit - Alright if it is compiling then that works.

@will I just did a clean compile on an UNO

@gusmill33 

Here is a new sketch (called sketch0) for you to test. It reads the Myoware on analogue pin A0 and sends the appropriate mouse button messages.

Each time through the loop it reads the Myoware sensor and when that reading is from 300-500 it sends a mouse press left message to the PC; when the value os from 600-1000 it sends a mouse press right message to the PC; otherwise (i.e. not in a critical zone) it tests to see if the left or right button is pressed and, if so, releases it.

Hope this helps.

As an aside, you should be making lots of comments in your code. You know what you're doing now, but when you come back in a year to look at you'll wonder what was going on. As an example, check the comments in the module checkMouseButton.

It also helps you and anybody else who looks at your code to use meaningful names for modules and variables. If you see the module "fire()" you don't know whether to duck or get an extinguisher 🙂

Posted by: @zander

@will I just did a clean compile on an UNO

So nice, so nice, we do it twice 🙂

@will Awesome! Thank you so much! I will test to see if everything works and check back here.

@will So as it seems right now the code is clicking at all times. 

Posted by: @gusmill33

@will So as it seems right now the code is clicking at all times. 

You'll remember that you said you wanted it to re-issue the mouse command each time through the loop.

If you only want it to click when entering for the first time, delete the 4 lines indicated in the sketch nd test again.

@will Even after doing this there is the same issue.