PIC, AVR, and Arduino are ubiquitous in projects these days and a lot of the time it’s easy to over-complicate things with their use. In this case, [Tod] wanted to use a momentary tactile swi… ...

Well, it is true, you can do this! Leaving the joke aside, let me show how you can achieve this. You will need the Arduino Board, a 560Ω resistor, and LED and the code example below. Related products: ...

There is an example of a programme that differentiates between long and short push-button pushes on the Arduino.cc website, but I was not taken it. However their was an example I did like the look of, ...

To build this project, all you need is three main components: an Arduino Uno, a 16x2 LCD, and a push button. You can connect everything to a breadboard to keep it simple.