It’s tough cutting into a new vehicle. For those that own something made in the 21st century, we can understand getting squeamish when you have to start cutting holes in something like a pristine ...

Ars is a place on the Internet where people have opinions (I know, I repeat myself). For some reason I was wondering why decora switches were invented and while looking at that I found many people who ...

We all have too much stock of one component or another. Maybe you have more audio pots than you know what to do with, or maybe it’s zener diodes. For [technologyguy], that thing is a pile of toggle ...

I picked up some rocker switches for controlling some lights and a fan i bought. now, the cathode light already has the correct connector to hook into a rocker switch, but the fan obviously doesn't.

The SwitchBot Bot is a decidedly simple—and not very attractive—way to press rocker switches and a few other types of buttons. Not everyone wants to expose themselves to high-voltage wiring just so ...

A device that opens and closes an electric circuit. It uses a lever that is moved up and down; a light switch on the wall being a common example. Early computers, especially mainframes, often had many ...

This Toggle Switch uses the popular Johnson Decade counter IC CD4017. By giving positive pulses to its clock input, the ten outputs of the IC becomes high one by one provided the reset pin is grounded ...

I designed this relay circuit to function as a DPDT toggle which is controlled by a momentary switch. I strive to keep my circuits simple with little or no integration (555’s, transistors, etc). The ...