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Slack Thumberator

A thumbs up/down button for Slack that works over BLE.

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Slack Thumberator

Things used in this project

Hardware components

LightBlue Bean
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Schematics

Thumberator Schematic

Code

HID_Thumberator

Arduino
void setup() {
  BeanHid.enable();
  pinMode(0, INPUT_PULLUP);  //the button is on pin 0, set as an input
}
void loop() {
  AccelerationReading accel = Bean.getAcceleration();
  if(digitalRead(0)==0){
    Bean.setLedRed(255);
    if (accel.yAxis>0){
      BeanHid.sendKeys(":thumbsup:");
    }
    else {
      BeanHid.sendKeys(":thumbsdown:");
    }
    BeanHid.sendKeys("\r\n");
    BeanHid.sendKeys("\r\n");
    Bean.sleep(200);
    Bean.setLedRed(0);
  }
  Bean.sleep(100);
}

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