and Arduino are ubiquitous in projects these days and a lot of the time it’s easy to over-complicate things with their use. In this case, [Tod] wanted to use a momentary tactile switch to turn ...

[Ed] was tasked with adding push-button degaussing ... to use an SSR to switch the coil, and after making lots of transistor-based designs on paper, grabbed a nearby Arduino.

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 ...