Make a lighted button out of an LED puck lamp

Found some LED puck lamps in the bargain bin at the hardware store. These are the lights that you stick on to something and push them to turn them on and off. I thought they'd make good lighted momentary switches.

Step 1 Take apart the light

There may be glue or screws holding the light together, but in my case it was just held together by friction.

The board with the LEDs, switch, and resistor is easy to pop off; just make sure it will be able to sit back in place.

You may need to break of some unnecessary corner of the board to allow space for the wire that you will be running from the bottom of the board.

Comments

[bhvm]

Button? means the one we use in Shirts?
Very confusing instructable!

[MisterHay]

You're right, I should have called it a momentary normally open switch. I was thinking of the Staples Easy Button (TM) when I was writing this up.

[omni96]

You better explain better what is this instructable is about I had to read the whole thing in order to understand what it is

[MisterHay]

Sorry, I thought that the title was explanatory. I'll be writing another instructable at some point how I modified the mice so that these buttons could become the left click, and I'll link to it from the introduction.