Before we could turn on our overhead lights with the simple flick of a switch, we had push buttons. In 1884, electrical engineer John Henry Holmes created the push button light as an easy way for ...

PIC, AVR, and Arduino are ubiquitous in projects these days and a lot of the time it’s easy to over-complicate things with their use. In this case, [Tod] wanted to use a momentary tactile switch ...

[Glen]’s project sounds perfectly straightforward: have a big industrial-style push button act as a one-key USB keyboard. He could have hacked something together in any number of ways ...