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 ...

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 ...

If like me you have plenty of USB cables charging different devices from Raspberry Pi devices and projects to your phone, you may be interested in the retro-styled USB hub Hella Switch. Offering a ...

While those of us in the hacking community usually focus on making new things, there’s plenty to be said for restoring old stuff. Finding a piece of hardware and making it look and work like new can ...

Barragán, Bofill, Graves, and Le Corbusier are architects renowned for their exceptional and sensitive use of color. In their approaches, color takes on an importance comparable almost to ...

In the world of the cockpit simulator hobby, no detail is too small to obsess over. Getting the look and feel of each and every cockpit control just right is important, and often means shelling out ...

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 ...