The full code for this project's Arduino sketch can be found here.Ĭoming soon: The Medium Green Button* for Social Media.This time, however, there was tour under way of wide-eyed poppets from the local school as part of an industry education initiative. The code in the Arduino sketch does not need to be changed and will work as-is.

If you only wish to enable SocialsDetox via The Big Red Button, or do not have or utilise the toggle switch to allow you to also disable it, you can remove the purple, grey and white wires, and the right-most resistor.

The wooden jig, for the box to sit on during cutting & drilling, being assembled:īig red button and toggle switch mounted: Thankfully this allowed me to re-purpose a project box that I already owned (used for a previous project): When initially ordering I couldn't identify the depth required, once the big red button was mounted, to allow for clearance inside the enclosure: Pin numbering for WeMos D1 Mini (ESP8266): ĮSP8266 & Switches/Buttons: Instructions: The Arduino Fetch library used in this project:

The main hardware components required for this build are:ġ x WeMos D1 Mini (or clone) - £3.67 ( .uk)ġ x Big Dome Push Button (red) - £7.99 ( .uk)ġ x 10K Resistor for Big Dome Push Buttonġ x 190mm x 115mm x 65mm Project box/enclosureġ x Toggle Switch, to allow SocialsDetox to be enabled or disabled using The Big Red Buttonġ x 10K Resistor for the toggle switch aboveġ x USB Battery Pack, for use when placing the enclosure away from a USB power source It is assumed that the reader is already familiar with the basics of the WeMos D1 Mini and Arduino IDE, if not - please see. Instead, I decided to build my own button. After being frustrated testing Tuya 'Smart Life' IoT buttons I realised Tuya don't currently make it possible for these buttons to trigger external actions, other than via sending an SMS, outside of their Tuya ecosystem (even when used in conjunction with the excellent SEQUEmatic) :(.

Time to push the big red button