His solution to the problem was to get rid of the toggle switch used to turn it on and replace it will a home-made momentary push button switch. Now he presses the switch to aim and doesn’t ...

In this case, [Tod] wanted to use a momentary tactile switch to turn something on and off. Instead of going with a microcontroller he built the circuit around a 555 timer. What he really needed in ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Push to make switch (PTM) is a momentary switch that closes the circuit only while pressed and is commonly used in ...

The venerable Stephen Woodward recently published the design idea (DI) “Flip ON flop OFF” that converts a momentary push button to a classic push-on, push-off switch. Figure 1 is an attempt to go ...

Or perhaps you just want to use a shiny modern push-button rather than a toggle/rocker/slide ... This design idea (DI) shows how to transform a basic momentary push or tact(ile) switch into a latching ...