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Step 3Connect wires to the keypad

Connect wires to the keypad
remove the film contacts from the keypad. Counting from the little plus sign, you need to connect to traces 2, 5, and 6.

you can now cut the film to size, and use conductive adhesive (or a circuitwriter and hot glue if you're lazy like me) to connect 1 lead to trace 2, 2 leads to trace 5, and 1 lead to trace 6.

at this point you can connect everything and test.

touching 2 and 5 should yield a 6, or a right arrow
touching 5 and 6 should yield a 4, or a left arrow

disconnect and continue...
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I'm a self proclaimed renaissance man. My goal in life is to have a conversational/practical knowledge of every subject known to man. I do graphics design in my spare time, along with make-ing.