Orkwerx Breadboard Button

Name: Orkwerx Breadboard Button
SKU: 1096
Price: 3.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued

(1 Review) Designed by orkwerx in United States of America

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Overview If you're as tired as we are of trying to get those standard through-hole buttons to actually stay in breadboards, this is for you. It's a little board with a 6mm momentary pushbutton, broke…

Overview

If you're as tired as we are of trying to get those standard through-hole buttons to actually stay in breadboards, this is for you. It's a little board with a 6mm momentary pushbutton, broken out to header pins. When you push one of these into a breadboard, it makes a nice, solid connection and doesn't pop out spontaneously when you least expect it!

The pins are connected along the long axis; the switch connects them across the short axis.

(It is admittedly a bit bigger than the standard buttons--take a look at the comparison picture. We think it's worth taking up a little more space to preserve your sanity, though!)

If you do a lot of breadboard prototyping, you might also appreciate the Orkwerx Polarity Stick!

Quantity	Price
1	$3.00
2-4	$2.75
5+	$2.25

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Michael | Oct. 30, 2013

Orkwerx Breadboard Button review

This is a solidly made button for plugging into the breadboard. As the description says, you need to connect the circuit via the short ends, and not the long ends that usually span the center part of a breadboard. Because of its size (0.3" wide and 0.6" long), it will work great on breadboards that have 5 rows of pins on each side. It might be a little cramped on breadboards with only 3 rows of pins. As somebody who has mis-soldered two projects recently, I appreciate the fact that I did not need to solder the header pins.