You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the button is not pressed and 1 that the button is ...

There was a point in time, excruciatingly brief, in which desktop computers often had a large “TURBO” button on their front panel. Some even featured an LED display that would indicate the current CPU ...

As if you already weren’t agonizing over whether or not you should build your own arcade cabinet, add this one to the list of compelling reasons why you should dedicate an unreasonable amount of ...

Did you know that you can use Arduino to turn on an LED when you press a button? Well, it is true, you can do this! Leaving the joke aside, let me show how you can achieve this. You will need the ...

Makers, hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts looking for a project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested in a new DIY Arduino arcade game project which uses LEGO bricks and Arduino ...

My daughter likes buttons. She's learning letters. I was bored over winter break and had these parts laying around... so I built her a "Button Box" based around an Arduino. Open source, hackable, and ...

Premier space exploration disaster simulator, Kerbal Space Program, is fun to play with regular controls, but it can be improved with this DIY build that lets you launch ships with a giant red button.

If you enjoy tinkering and building Arduino projects and gizmos, you might be interested in the new Adafruit Gemma device which has been created by Adafruit and includes a tiny wearable platform board ...