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Arduino Essentials

You're reading from   Arduino Essentials Enter the world of Arduino and its peripherals and start creating interesting projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398569
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meeting the Arduino Family 2. The Arduino Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with the Environment the Digital Way 4. Controlling Outputs Softly with Analog Outputs 5. Sensing the Real World through Digital Inputs 6. Analog Inputs to Feel Between All and Nothing 7. Managing the Time Domain 8. Communicating with Others 9. Dealing with Interrupts 10. Arduino in a Real Case – Greenhouse Control Index

The momentary push button


In the next screenshot, you can see a bunch of different momentary push buttons of two kinds:

  • Printed circuit board (PCB) soldering: These used to be smaller, really tiny in some cases, and they come with little legs that allow them to be soldered through holes in a PCB. In the screenshot, they are the three on the left-hand side.

  • Panel mounting: These are the three on the right-hand side in the picture. Usually, they come in a much bigger size than the PCB kind and come with bigger connections so that wires can be soldered to them. They usually come with some kind of nut so that they can be fixed to a panel.

    Different momentary push buttons

Physical differences apart and looking at them from the connection point of view, we have to notice an important difference between both groups.

If you take a closer look at the PCB group or, even better, if you perform a simple search on the Internet, you will notice that these kinds of momentary buttons usually come with a total...

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