[Pete Mills] was browsing around online when he came across an arcade button light switch and immediately wanted one. He didn’t however want to pay the $35 asking price for the switch ...

Flic's latest smart home button adds support for gesture controls ... the Flic Duo can act as a standard light switch, but when you’re moving around it can do any number of things.

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 ...