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    MIT App Inventor IoT Button

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    This tutorial teaches how to connect an Arduino button sensor to an App Inventor app. The steps include: 1) Connecting the button to a Grove board and uploading code to the Arduino. 2) Creating a basic App Inventor app connected to the Arduino. 3) Adding code to track button presses in a counter label, set the screen color when the button is pressed, and reset it when released. Completing this tutorial allows building upon the basic IoT connection to add button input functionality.

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    This tutorial teaches how to connect an Arduino button sensor to an App Inventor app. The steps include: 1) Connecting the button to a Grove board and uploading code to the Arduino. 2) Creating a basic App Inventor app connected to the Arduino. 3) Adding code to track button presses in a counter label, set the screen color when the button is pressed, and reset it when released. Completing this tutorial allows building upon the basic IoT connection to add button input functionality.

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    This tutorial teaches how to connect an Arduino button sensor to an App Inventor app. The steps include: 1) Connecting the button to a Grove board and uploading code to the Arduino. 2) Creating a basic App Inventor app connected to the Arduino. 3) Adding code to track button presses in a counter label, set the screen color when the button is pressed, and reset it when released. Completing this tutorial allows building upon the basic IoT connection to add button input functionality.

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    MIT App Inventor IoT Button

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    This tutorial teaches how to connect an Arduino button sensor to an App Inventor app. The steps include: 1) Connecting the button to a Grove board and uploading code to the Arduino. 2) Creating a basic App Inventor app connected to the Arduino. 3) Adding code to track button presses in a counter label, set the screen color when the button is pressed, and reset it when released. Completing this tutorial allows building upon the basic IoT connection to add button input functionality.

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    App Inventor + IoT: 30

    min

    Button (with IoT Setup and Basic


    Connection tutorials completed)

    This tutorial will help you get started with App Inventor + IoT and a button on an
    Arduino 101 controller. We are also using a Seeed Grove shield for this tutorial.
    You do not need to use this board, but it does make things easier. The button we
    recommend is the Grove button sensor.

    Before you start you should have first completed the App Inventor + IoT Setup
    tutorial to set up your Arduino device.
    ● Connect the button to the
    Grove board in the D4 pin
    connector.
    ● For this tutorial make sure
    BUTTON is set to ENABLED
    and all others are set to
    DISABLED
    ● You should also click the
    arrow button in the top left to
    upload the code
    Next, you should complete the App Inventor + IoT Basic Connection tutorial to
    make the app with a basic connection to the Arduino device. If you prefer, you
    can download the completed .aia file here.

    The remaining steps all build off of the the starter code for Basic Connection
    tutorial and .aia:
    ● Drag a Label from the User Interface Palette and drop it between
    LabelStatus and ListBLE
    ○ Rename the Label "LabelData".
    ○ Change its text to “Data: “.

    ● In the Palette window, click on Extension at the bottom and then on


    "Import extension" and click on "URL".
    ○ Paste in this URL:
    http://iot.appinventor.mit.edu/assets/resources/edu.mit.appinventor.iot.arduino101.aix
    ● Add the Arduino101Button extension to your app by dragging it onto the
    Viewer.
    Next, we need to let App Inventor know which pin on the Grove board the
    button is connected to:
    ● Click on Arduino101Button in the Components pane.
    ● In the Properties pane, click on BluetoothDevice and select BluetoothLE1.
    Under Pin, enter the digital pin that matches the one the button is plugged
    into on the Grove board (in this case D4).
    ○ Note: You only need to set the number (4) not the letter (D).
    Now switch to the Blocks Editor view

    First, we want to set it up to request data updates when the sensor value on the
    Arduino changes.
    ● from Arduino101Button1 in the Blocks pane, add
    call Arduino101Button1.RequestButtonStateUpdates to the existing
    when BluetoothLE1.Connected block

    Next we need to store the data we receive from the sensor. From the Variables
    drawer in the Blocks pane, drag an initialize global name to block and name it
    "buttonPresses". From the Math drawer add a number block and set it to "0". We'll
    use this to keep track of the number of times the button is pressed.

    Let's make a new procedure to display the number of times the button is pressed in
    the LabelData. You can create a procedure by dragging out a purple procedure
    block from the Procedures drawer in the Blocks pane. Let's rename it
    updateDataLabel.
    ○ from LabelData in the Blocks pane, add set LabelData.Text to.
    ○ from the Text drawer connect a join block.
    ■ From the Text drawer, connect a text block and type
    "Button Presses: "
    ■ From the Variables drawer connect a get global buttonPresses.
    block.
    The Button has two states that we can code for: When the Button is Pressed and
    when the Button is Released. This means that you can have some things happen
    each time the button is pressed or held down, and some things happen each time
    the button is released. Let's see how each of these work.
    First, let's program the behavior for when the button is pressed down. From
    Arduino101Button1 in the Blocks pane drag in the
    when Ardunio101Button1.Pressed block.
    ● From Screen1 in the Blocks pane, add in set Screen1.BackgroundColor to.
    ○ And from Color drawer in the Blocks pane, connect a Cyan block.
    ● From the Variables drawer, add set global ButtonPress to.
    ○ Then from the Math drawer connect an Addition block.
    ■ Next, from the Variables drawer add get globalButtonPress to
    the Addition block.
    ■ From the Math drawer, add a 0 and change it to 1.
    ● Finally, from the Procedures drawer add call updateDataLabel.

    Now let's code for when the button is released. From the Arduino101Button1
    drawer in the Blocks pane, drag in the when Ardunio101Button1.Released block.
    ● From Screen1 in the Blocks pane, add in set Screen1.BackgroundColor to.
    ○ And from the Color drawer, connect a White block.

    Your app should now be working! Connect your


    Arduino device using the MIT AI2 Companion (if you
    haven't already). Test it out by pressing and
    releasing the button. You should see the counter go
    up each time and the screen's background turn
    Cyan. When you release the button the screen
    should turn back to White.

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