"The most important thing to me in this project was that of aesthetics. The button itself had to look good, no, amazing. The entire effect would be nothing more than lights turning on and off if the button wasn't as good as it needed to be. I started looking for the button first. You would be surprised at how hard it is to find a button. I checked the local electronics warehouse to no avail. The closest thing they had were the buttons that you find on arcade game machines. Useless to me (well, at least for this project, hint hint).

After about a week of solid searching, I finally found a website that deals in industrial automation (think factories). I found the perfect button. It was a mushroom-style button with a nice looking bezel. Only problem... it was expensive as hell for just a button. But I had to do what I had to do and finally ordered it. After a week or so of doing nothing, the button finally came. After I got the button in the mail, the rest is history."