Arduin-o-Phone

Created by lady ada

Last updated on 2015-05-20 05:40:07 PM EDT

 Guide Contents

Guide Contents 2
Overview 3
Parts and Prep 6
Learn all about it! 7
Wire & Test FONA shield 8
Test TFT Shield 9
Arduin-o-Phone Sketch 10
A tour of the code 10
Setup code 10
The main Loop() 12

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 Overview

Apple, Schmapple! Make your own phone with an Arduino & Adafruit FONA shield. This project will
show you how you can use the FONA shield and a TFT shield stacked on top to make a touch-
screen phone that you can program yourself.

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 Using Adafruit's great libraries, you can make your own touch-screen dialer in 200 lines of code.
Extend it yourself, or keep it simple. Design your own interface or code up a custom app, right from
the Arduino IDE

OK sure, you can't check your facebook on the Arduin-o-Phone, but maybe that's not such a bad
idea?

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 Parts and Prep

This project doesn't need a ton of parts, and there's some flexibility based on whether you want to
use a headset or speaker&mic.

Start off with the basics:

Adafruit FONA 800 shield (http://adafru.it/fdQ)

Adafruit TFT Shield w/Resistive touch (http://adafru.it/fdR)
Stacking headers (http://adafru.it/dsu)
GSM SIM card - we suggest a TING SIM (http://adafru.it/fbW), they're a great mobile
provider
1200mAh LiPoly Battery (http://adafru.it/258), or you could use a
500mAh (http://adafru.it/drL) but 1200 is recommended.
GSM Antenna, this uFL sticker-type is quite nice (http://adafru.it/fbL)
Arduino UNO (http://adafru.it/dCA) (we later changed our prototype to a Metro so that there
was space in the 'shield sandwich' for the lipoly battery (http://adafru.it/fdS))

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 Then you can either go with speaker + mic for 'hold it up and talk' style

Wired electret microphone (http://adafru.it/dDa)

Small metal speaker (http://adafru.it/dDb)

or

A plug-in headset (http://adafru.it/fbS)

You'll also need a microUSB cable, soldering iron and solder, and possibly some wire or other
basic electronic components!

Learn all about it!

Before you put together the Arduin-o-Phone you'll want to read up a bunch and be familiar with the:

Arduino UNO and Arduino IDE (http://adafru.it/dVk)

2.8" TFT Shield (http://adafru.it/fdT) - make sure you get this working nicely first
FONA 800 Shield (http://adafru.it/fdU) - solder this one up with the stacking headers so
you can stack the TFT shield on top! Then go through the example and make sure you
have it working first

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 Wire & Test FONA shield
OK now you're ready to put it together. Most of the soldering happens on the FONA shield. Don't
forget to solder it with stacking headers!

Attach the Mini Metal Speaker to the SPKR pins by soldering the + wire to the + pad, and
same with the - wire
Attach the Wired Electret Microphone to the MIC pins by soldering the red wire to + and
black wire to -
Solder the Vibrating Motor Disc to the Buzzer pins by soldering the red wire to the + pad,
and the black wire to -
Plug the Lipoly battery into the JST connector, and switch the slide switch to CHRG
Insert the SIM card
Carefully plug the GSM antenna into the uFL connector, it should snap on nicely
Plug the shield onto the Arduino and connect the Arduino to your computer

OK now go through the FONA test to make sure your FONA can get onto the cellular network,
make phone calls, etc:

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 Go through the Arduino FONA shield
test
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Test TFT Shield

Once that works, plug the 2.8" TFT shield on top and run the touch-paint tutorial to make sure
you've got the display and touch capability working

Go through 2.8" TFT Shield tutorial

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All working? OK, now you can go to the next step

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 Arduin-o-Phone Sketch

Now you're ready to upload the Arduin-o-phone sketch. Visit the github repository
(http://adafru.it/fdW)for the full code history and details, or simply download by clicking this link:

Download Arduin-o-Phone sketch

http://adafru.it/fdX

A tour of the code

The sketch will likely get updated with more capability but here's a tour of the code for the initial
commit

Setup code
In the setup() code we start by initializing the screen first, before the FONA, so that we can display
the status updates

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 void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("Arduin-o-Phone!");

// clear the screen

tft.begin();
tft.fillScreen(ILI9341_BLACK);

// eep touchscreen not found?

if (!ts.begin()) {
Serial.println("Couldn't start touchscreen controller");
while (1);
}
Serial.println("Touchscreen started");

We then create 15 buttons using the Adafruit_GFX_Button helper. These make nice rounded
rectangle buttons with the text centered. The buttons don't have any sort of touch 'knowledge' but
its handy to have a shortcut to drawing a button!

We use the BUTTON_X, _Y, _SPACING #defines we made to define the size of the buttons and
the spacing.

// create buttons
for (uint8_t row=0; row<5; row++) {
for (uint8_t col=0; col<3; col++) {
buttons[col + row*3].initButton(&tft, BUTTON_X+col*(BUTTON_W+BUTTON_SPACING_X),
BUTTON_Y+row*(BUTTON_H+BUTTON_SPACING_Y), // x, y, w, h, outline, fill, text
BUTTON_W, BUTTON_H, ILI9341_WHITE, buttoncolors[col+row*3], ILI9341_WHITE,
buttonlabels[col + row*3], BUTTON_TEXTSIZE);
buttons[col + row*3].drawButton();
}
}

This just draws the 'outline' of the number text field

// create 'text field'

tft.drawRect(TEXT_X, TEXT_Y, TEXT_W, TEXT_H, ILI9341_WHITE);

Now that the screen is drawn, we can check on the FONA, resetting it and turning on the external
audio port. We print the status of the FONA module code to a little bar of text under the number
textfield, using the status() helper function

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 // create 'text field'
tft.drawRect(TEXT_X, TEXT_Y, TEXT_W, TEXT_H, ILI9341_WHITE);

status(F("Checking for FONA..."));

// Check FONA is there
fonaSS.begin(4800); // if you're using software serial

// See if the FONA is responding

if (! fona.begin(fonaSS)) {
status(F("Couldn't find FONA :("));
while (1);
}
status(F("FONA is OK!"));

// Check we connect to the network

while (fona.getNetworkStatus() != 1) {
status(F("Looking for service..."));
delay(100);
}
status(F("Connected to network!"));

// set to external mic & headphone

fona.setAudio(FONA_EXTAUDIO);

With that, the Arduin-o-Phone is set up

The main Loop()

Now we can perform a user-interface loop, where we check for button presses and respond

We start by checking for touch presses on the screen, and scaling the presses so they align with
the 240x320 size of the display

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 void loop(void) {
TS_Point p;

if (ts.bufferSize()) {
p = ts.getPoint();
} else {
// this is our way of tracking touch 'release'!
p.x = p.y = p.z = -1;
}

// Scale from ~0->4000 to tft.width using the calibration #'s

if (p.z != -1) {
p.x = map(p.x, TS_MINX, TS_MAXX, 0, tft.width());
p.y = map(p.y, TS_MINY, TS_MAXY, 0, tft.height());
Serial.print("("); Serial.print(p.x); Serial.print(", ");
Serial.print(p.y); Serial.print(", ");
Serial.print(p.z); Serial.println(") ");
}

next, we can use that press location to ask the buttons if that point is inside the bounds of the
outline, if so we tell the button it is being pressed

// go thru all the buttons, checking if they were pressed

for (uint8_t b=0; b<15; b++) {
if (buttons[b].contains(p.x, p.y)) {
//Serial.print("Pressing: "); Serial.println(b);
buttons[b].press(true); // tell the button it is pressed
} else {
buttons[b].press(false); // tell the button it is NOT pressed
}
}

The Adafruit_GFX_Button object keeps track of whether it was just pressed or just released which
is handy so we can only perform an action when it is first pressed or released. For example, if it
was just pressed, redraw it so its 'inverted' colors, easy to tell it was pressed

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 // now we can ask the buttons if their state has changed
for (uint8_t b=0; b<15; b++) {
if (buttons[b].justReleased()) {
// Serial.print("Released: "); Serial.println(b);
buttons[b].drawButton(); // draw normal
}

if (buttons[b].justPressed()) {
buttons[b].drawButton(true); // draw invert!

Now we can perform actions based on the presses. If its button #3-15, its one of the number or * #
buttons, we can add that to the text field array

// if a numberpad button, append the relevant # to the textfield

if (b >= 3) {
if (textfield_i < TEXT_LEN) {
textfield[textfield_i] = buttonlabels[b][0];
textfield_i++;
textfield[textfield_i] = 0; // zero terminate
}
}

In case we make a typo, the CLR button will let you delete a character

// clr button! delete char

if (b == 1) {

textfield[textfield_i] = 0;
if (textfield > 0) {
textfield_i--;
textfield[textfield_i] = ' ';
}
}

Now that those buttons are taken care of, we should redraw the text field, because it may have
more or fewer characters

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 // update the current text field
Serial.println(textfield);
tft.setCursor(TEXT_X + 2, TEXT_Y+10);
tft.setTextColor(TEXT_TCOLOR, ILI9341_BLACK);
tft.setTextSize(TEXT_TSIZE);
tft.print(textfield);

Button #2 is END and you can always just tell the FONA to hang up

// its always OK to just hang up

if (b == 2) {
status(F("Hanging up"));
fona.hangUp();
}

Button #0 is SEND so you can tell the FONA to call whatever is in that text field

// we dont really check that the text field makes sense

// just try to call
if (b == 0) {
status(F("Calling"));
Serial.print("Calling "); Serial.print(textfield);

fona.callPhone(textfield);
}

Finally, we have a delay here to keep the UI button pressing handling from being too 'fast'

delay(100); // UI debouncing
}
}
}

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