Tactile Switch - Collin's Lab Notes

Visit the Adafruit shop online - www.adafruit.com
Take a moment of appreciation for the tactile switch - reliable mainstay of the electronics user interface. And learn a quick wiring trick while you’re at it.
Pick up all types of tactile switches from the Adafruit shop:
www.adafruit.com/category/759
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[@shamardaniel4819]

Yes! Is this a full return I see?! Love you content keep it up plz.

[@fecheverria]

Yea! you are back! You solved my eternal button wiring problem.

[@JaredConnell]

OMG I've never even thought of just doing the diagonals!! Thank you!

[@hofandor]

Think about two long flat parallel continuous wires going through the body. It is the same wire through the body bent like it easy to bend a flat wire. It works for me every time.

[@miketothe2ndpwr]

I can't stop reading this comment and not understanding it

[@hofandor]

@@miketothe2ndpwr The legs are made out of sheet metal. Two pieces of metal are bent to make two legs on each side. And the legs on each side are always connected because they are the same part just bent inside the switch. Try disassembling one and you will see. That is how I found it out. Probably it will be destroyed during the process but then you will definitely understand.

[@roycas3]

I can watch your videos whole day and never regret the time spent.!
Learning something new everyday.

[@thomstrimbu8659]

I dig Colin's videos.

[@clue0001]

Thanks Collin! Good job. 👍

[@danielbarkess7964]

Absolutely loving these shorts

[@MatSmithLondon]

I mean…. I know all this stuff but it’s so nice to watch anyway. Nicely presented.

[@kyoteecasey]

If you look at the bottom of these you can see a line in the center between the 2 pairs of legs. legs on the same side of the line are connected when button is not pressed

[@jonahardayfio7746]

Helpful

[@dhamcaleb8684]

Wow how bout sum linier switches? Or clicky blues?

[@AMalas]

Today on obvious things I never thought about

[@FYMFTP]

I keep a box of those to fix whatever buttons break on my stuff, they came in handy a bunch of times.

[@MrMoon-lo4dw]

thank you! I've been so confused about those

[@adinugroho9261]

Thank you

[@Willy_Tepes]

You can solder tactile switches directly to a arduino or raspberry pi. Just find an IO pin in the correct distance from a gnd or pwr pin and cut off the legs you don't need. You can pull it high or low via a resistor.

[@merajkememes7403]

Awesome sir... I love you

[@e.a297]

Great content, i always had this question 😂

[@Simran-qu5ny]

We also use this same technique to connect this switch to a circuit.😁😁

[@MrLuigge]

tactile switch most known by me as "button"

[@iamonlyme5098]

Nice info. Tactile meaning gives a click when pressed?

[@Torsan1977]

Excellent

[@michalena8695]

Idk what you are talking about but I feel a really strong urge to press all these buttons

[@JayJay-xr6ei]

Diagonal won't work if you have a DPDT though...

[@antreaskonstantinou8585]

These are also in the ps4 controller

[@trevann8213]

I'm pretty sure these things litterly have little symbols on them to show which ones go to which if you learn how to read them

[@Juppie902]

Why are there 4 legs then if u only need 2 to close a circuit with a button ?

[@kyoteecasey]

so they can be securely soldered in place. 4 legs gives much better holding than 2 where it can flex

[@randomizedcontent9461]

Still better than cherry browns

[@falin9557]

I need a programmable board with at least 100MHz of clock speed. Which one is recommended? Is it better to make a programmable board out of a computer directly?

[@T-rex-dl4pg]

arduino yun atheros ar9331 has got 400MHz

[@arshia.sasson]

I would recommend a Teensy 3 or 4

[@NortelGeek]

They should call them "mush" switches as half of them don't really feel tactile, especially the white reset button you show.

[@perwestermark8920]

You can't see on the switch how tactile it is. They look the same but are sold in a wide variety of click forces.
Just as they are sold in a wide variety of button lengths.

[@Dragon-xd9em]

👍

[@rpavlik1]

Oh man figuring out which pair are connected is horrible...

[@Scootertuner420]

Why are they called tactile?

[@ev-ezaye3580]

At the moment, I'm disgusted with 'tactile switches'… My computer's on/off switch has become a nightmare just to boot it up alone! It's probably fine for shutting down, but I rarely use it as such - just for getting into/accessing my DT environment

[@kopiller]

obvious but practical :)