There are many different types of switches that are intended to address different design requirements, deployment environments, and usage scenarios. I’m always amazed how one thing leads to another.

It used to be common to use an SR latch to debounce an SPDT switch, but how does this actually work in the nanosecond time domain? Readers may remember that some time ago, I wrote an article on switch ...

Push to make switch (PTM) is a momentary switch that closes the circuit only while pressed and is commonly used in doorbells and keyboards. Single pole, single throw switch (SPST) is a latching switch ...

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 ...