4-wire resistive touch interface This kind of touch screen interface connects to the touch screen by four wires

i n two pairs: (TSPX and TSMX), (TSPY and TSMY). A 4-wire resistive touch screen c onsists of two conductive film layers which are laminated to a solid base materi al or directly to the TFT screen. Each layer has two electrodes. One layer has a n electrode on the left and one on the right edge. The other layer has one on th e top and one on the bottom edge. When connecting the touch screen it is importa nt to connect one signal pair to one layer. For example: TSPX to the left electrode and TSMX to the right electrode TSPY to the upper electrode and TSMY to the lower electrode As long as each wire pair is connected to one layer, every combination will work . After proper connection the touch screen needs to be calibrated. For in deep information on how the 4-wire touch interface is implemented on the colibri module see the UCB1400 or WM9715 datasheet.

PSP Touch Screen Connector ATmega168 Arduino Pin # Pin Configuratio n for Reading Pin # Electrode Breakout Port # Analog Digital Read X Read Y 1 Top Y1 PC0 0 14 Input: not used Output: 1 (5V) 2 Right X2 PC1 1 15 Output: 1 (5V) Input: not used 3 Bottom Y2 PC2 2 16 Input: used Output: 0 (GND) 4 Left X1 PC3 3 17 Output: 0 (GND) Input: u sed Software All the code be downloaded from here. Arduino The Arduino code is pretty easy. It sets the pin configuration for reading x and reads the voltage and then sets the configuration for reading y and reads the v oltage. I found that it is important to wait for 1ms between setting up the conf iguration and the actual read: /** * TouchScreen_test * * Read position from a 4-wire resistive touch screen. More information at: * http://make.larsi.org/electronics/TouchScreen/ */ // the 4.3" PSP Touch Screen with Sparkfun's connector is connected like this #define PIN_Y1 14 // analog input 0 #define PIN_X2 15 // analog input 1 #define PIN_Y2 16 // analog input 2 #define PIN_X1 17 // analog input 3 #define PIN_READX 2 // analog input 2 #define PIN_READY 3 // analog input 3

// stores the position from the touchscreen int posX = 0; int posY = 0; void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); } void loop() { // configuration for reading the x value pinMode(PIN_Y1, INPUT); pinMode(PIN_Y2, INPUT); pinMode(PIN_X1, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(PIN_X1, LOW); pinMode(PIN_X2, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(PIN_X2, HIGH); delay(1); // let things settle posX = analogRead(PIN_READX); // read the X value // configuration for reading the y value pinMode(PIN_X1, INPUT); pinMode(PIN_X2, INPUT); pinMode(PIN_Y2, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(PIN_Y2, LOW); pinMode(PIN_Y1, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(PIN_Y1, HIGH); delay(1); // let things settle posY = analogRead(PIN_READY); // read the Y value // send position out over serial port Serial.print(posX); Serial.print(","); Serial.println(posY); delay(18); } Processing The Processing code is just a simple demo. It reads the positions from the seria l port and keps the last 256 vualues in a ring buffer. The draw() function just draws a circle for all the positions in the buffer. /** * TouchScreen_test * * visualize the position returned from the Arduino interface */ import processing.serial.*; Serial port; static final private int LINE_FEED = 10; static final private int COUNT = 256; // setup vals from serial // wait 18ms (total 20ms)

int[] posX = new int[COUNT]; int[] posY = new int[COUNT]; int index = 0; void setup() { size(960, 540, P2D); background(0); ellipseMode(CENTER); println("Available serial ports:"); println(Serial.list()); port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[1], 115200); // clear and wait for linefeed port.clear(); port.bufferUntil(LINE_FEED); } void draw() { background(0xFFFFFFFF); fill(0xFF336699); stroke(0xFF000000); for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) ellipse(map(posX[i], 0, 1023, 0, width - 1), map(posY[i], 0, 1023, height 1, 0), 10, 10); } // handle serial data void serialEvent(Serial p) { String data = trim(p.readStringUntil(LINE_FEED)); if (data != null) { String[] data_split = split(data, ','); posX[index] = int(data_split[0]); posY[index] = int(data_split[1]); index = (index + 1) % COUNT; } } last update: Feb 16, 2011 technical