{"id":1061,"date":"2021-04-14T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2021-04-14T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:16:56","slug":"illuminated-latching-switches-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2021\/04\/illuminated-latching-switches-on-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminated Latching Switches on a budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first saw this DIY Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck, I knew I wanted to build it. I love the aesthetic, and I already have most of the parts. Element14 was kind enough to present most of what I need via direct links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DIY RaspberryPi Cyberdeck\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SbsDHF9X6fU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I saw the price. Those beautiful rectangular switches to the right of the screen?  Illuminated latching switches, $20 each! I just can&#8217;t stomach blowing $100 on switches for a DIY case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I started shopping. And damned if I didn&#8217;t find them ALL quite pricy. I must have shopped for over a week in my spare time, and really couldn&#8217;t catch a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until I found these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baomain 5\/8&#034; 16mm Push Button Switch Latching Rectangular Cap LED Lamp Red Yellow Orange Blue Green Light DC 24V SPDT 5 Pin 5 Pack\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"525\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=w00&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_zaieqDH5lzjFme&#038;asin=B01MYYX0BT&#038;tag=540baab-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon. $10.89 for five, around half the cost of ONE everywhere else.  Ordered March 25, shipped from China, arrived today. Not bad for China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw this DIY Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck, I knew I wanted to build it. I love the aesthetic, and I already have most of the parts. Element14 was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2021\/04\/illuminated-latching-switches-on-a-budget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illuminated Latching Switches on a budget&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/switches-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}