This month we’re debuting a new series, Component of the Month. Just as our Skill Builders explore core maker skills in electronics, woodworking, metalworking, and other disciplines, Component of the Month will survey fundamental electronic components we think every maker should be familiar with.
Open Music Labs has put up a great tutorial on how to read a matrix of switches, useful if you’re doing a project with keypads or musical keyboards.
Elemental to electronics hardware, manually-operated switches are the simplest of electromechanical devices — and likely the most familiar.
I sure hope Valentin Ruhry took advantage of his electronic component distributor’s volume discount to create Hello World, a site-specific installation made of 4,750 (by my calculation) illuminating rocker switches. The piece is currently on display as part of an exhibition called Fünf Räume at The Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City until September […]
Tellart has posted a new video of their “What is a Switch?” project from the Fall 2007 RISD Industrial Design studio The Internet of Things. It’s got switches made with all kinds of things including rubber bands, tinsel, plenty of wires, and what looks like a spork: A switch, after all, is just a connection […]
