The Diet Coke Button

Recreating the alleged "Diet Coke" button on Trump's Oval Office desk

Kumar

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Description

One of the changes noticed in the Oval Office when Biden took office was the absence of the "Diet Coke" button. Supposedly visitors would think it would start nuclear war, but in reality it would just summon a butler to bring a Diet Coke. Probably the insides were trivial and just contained the guts off a wireless doorbell, but there is something magical about a big red button embedded in an ornate wooden box with the presidential seal and which appeals to the inner child in all of us. I want to make my own. No one will get me a Diet Coke, including (and especially) my spouse, so it will connect to Smartthings/Home Assistant over Z-Wave and make things happen that don't involve Coke or any other beverages.

Details

I'm deciding to go with a NodeMCU implementation with the ESPHome firmware for now, given that it's easy to work with and I'm familiar with it. The downside is that the button will require a power cord, limiting placement and authenticity as the original is wireless. The schematic and ESPHome YAML configuration are included in project files.

Files

diet_coke_button.yaml ESPHome configuration yaml - 383.00 bytes - 01/23/2021 at 03:03		Download
Diet Coke Button Schematic.png KiCAD schematic Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - 3.63 kB - 01/23/2021 at 02:54		Preview

Components

1 × NodeMCU R2
1 × 10k resistor
1 × A large, tempingly pushable red button
1 × An ornate wood box
1 × Micro-USB power supply

Project Logs

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Finished assembly!
Kumar • 02/19/2021 at 05:12 • 0 comments

Assembled box
Arcade button came in
Kumar • 02/18/2021 at 02:11 • 0 comments

Arcade button arrived and got it mounted on the box. Now to get everything wired together
Cigar box came in
Kumar • 02/13/2021 at 20:28 • 0 comments

Cigar box came in courtesy Ebay. Still waiting on the red arcade push buttons.
Created breadboard prototype
Kumar • 02/07/2021 at 02:15 • 0 comments

(embarassingly trivial) breadboard prototype. Next step: on to finding a fancy cigar box and a nice big red through-hole pushbutton