{"id":860,"date":"2012-07-08T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerokidz.com\/ideas\/?p=860"},"modified":"2014-06-24T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:45:43","slug":"arduino-pull-up-pull-down-resistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Arduino pull-up, pull-down resistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>notes<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pull-up_resistor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16477\" src=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-24-at-12.44.21-PM-173x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-24-at-12.44.21-PM-173x300.png 173w, https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-24-at-12.44.21-PM.png 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are hooking up a switch of some kind, you can eaily make use of the internal pull up resistor. \u00a0Usually we use a switch to turn on the electricity. \u00a0You push the button and the line goes high. \u00a0and you would need a pull down resistor to tie the input low. \u00a0But we also make the electricity go the other way. \u00a0You use the pull up resistor to tie the input high. \u00a0You hook one end of the switch to the input and the other end to ground, then when you push the switch the input goes low. \u00a0Then in your software you look for the input to go low when the button is pushed versus high.<\/p>\n<p>from this thread:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/cgi-bin\/yabb2\/YaBB.pl?num=1205614794\">http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/cgi-bin\/yabb2\/YaBB.pl?num=1205614794<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>notes If you are hooking up a switch of some kind, you can eaily make use of the internal pull up resistor. \u00a0Usually we use a switch to turn on the electricity. \u00a0You push the button and the line goes high. \u00a0and you would need a pull down resistor to tie the input low. \u00a0But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arduino pull-up, pull-down resistors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[20,55,296],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-media-art","tag-arduino","tag-electronics","tag-notebook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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