USB toggle switches make it possible to connect one USB device to multiple computers. Though the connected device can't be used with all the computers simultaneously, you can toggle between the ...

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 ...