Where is the best selection of specialty butonns, switches, etc.?
Specifically, at the moment I'm looking to find some power buttons for the PC and monitor. I need two identical buttons for the dash. I'd love to have ones that look like the one attached below. That one is from my desktop monitor. I have another monitor that is almost the same. I'd rip them out of there to use in my car, but they aren't identical. I may just end up with these:
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here. But I'd prefer the one like my monitor for a more conservative/factory look.
I was looking for a 3 position toggle switch that is DP3T (On-On-On) but I can't find many, and none that would look good. I will probably have to change my cicuit (and make it more complex) to get it to work with a DPDT (On-Off-On) switch.
I also want to have some buttons for radio presets (5 or 6), mute, and maybe pause/play, stop, fwd, and rev. I will probably scavenge these from a factory radio. Nice big buttons with lit numbers in the center for radio presets right under my monitor would be awesome! I'd just bust apart a factory radio to get the buttons themselves. Then wire some LEDs behind each one. Put them on top of momentary switches. Wire the switches to a hacked open 17-key keypad, so that each button simulates a pressed key. Use Girder to map those keystrokes to a radio preset in your FM tuner software. Now I have radio preset buttons without a head unit!
Now I can change radio stations with one press of a button, no matter what is on the screen. Could do the same for play/pause or anything else that you want. By using a keypad, it allows you to use numlock to give each button a second purpose, also.
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