Electronic, Arduino enthusiasts and makers looking for a project to keep them busy this weekend, may be interested in a cool custom switch created by Dave Darko.

Well, it is true, you can do this! Leaving the joke aside, let me show how you can achieve this. You will need the Arduino Board, a 560Ω resistor, and LED and the code example below. Related products: ...

You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the button is not pressed and 1 that the button is ...