Debouncing button or switch inputs on microcontrollers can be a challenging problem for those first starting to program these devices. Part of the reason for this difficulty is that real-world buttons ...

If you’ve ever designed an embedded system with at least one button you’ve had to deal with button debouncing. This is also know as contact bounce, a phenomenon where a button press can be registered ...

A quick google search reveals that there are over 212,000 websites that examine how to debounce a button. After examining a number of them, though, it is obvious to me that these implementations are ...

When a switch closes, the contacts do not close instantly and finally. The contacts close, then bounce open, and this cycle repeats for a period, depending on the switch-manufacturing technology. The ...