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[Adam Richards]

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[skimoose]

Those are nice..... but I'd rather have the elusive WIN button!

[Bcahn836]

I currrently work at staples and for some reason we can't keep those silly buttons on the shelf. People come in and buy 5 or 6 of them at a time, and every time we get a truck with a shipment we get 1 or 2 boxes of them.

[Jessica Boucher]

For those of you who haven't seen these, you can pick one up with a donation of $5 towards the Boys and Girls Club of America.

But if you REALLY want to talk about the Motherlode of Easy Buttons, you need to visit Staples HQ. When you walk in, there's two staircases on each side that connect to a walkway on the 2nd floor. Hanging off that walkway is in very large letters "We make buying office supplies easy." The "easy" is actually an Easy Button about 6-8 ft in diameter. I admit, I gasped a little when I saw it

[Conor Ryan]

Which is a more appropriate place to but the button, on the robot or on the control board?

btw Adam I told you they'd put it up eventually

[BuddyB309]

I would have passed by that shelf and thought "Oh, that funny and cute." But I wouldn't actually buy one. I am amazed that people are buying these things by the half dozen.

[JamesBrown]

i think it would be a good addition to the robot controls, open it, put a limit switch inside and have it posistion your arm or ome other necessary task. I bet every regional will have atleast one team with an easy button.

[JoeXIII'007]

It's a silly question, but it must be asked: do they work???

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

i think it would be a good addition to the robot controls, open it, put a limit switch inside and have it posistion your arm or ome other necessary task. I bet every regional will have atleast one team with an easy button.

We had a button like that on our controls.
We called it Dan's. It's an inside joke towards our driver. It would put X-WhAAAt back into her home position. I don't think they ever used it though.

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

It's a silly question, but it must be asked: do they work???

Yea they work, they sound annoying.
Linky

OK maybe I'm the only one not getting this: so they work...
but what do they do? ( make a sound, possibility of being wired as a switch?)

[DCA Fan]

They say "That was easy" when you push them. Hm I think I'm going to need to get one for the sheer novelty of it, but take out the batteries so I don't get too terribly annoyed.

[Ian Curtis]

I almost bought one to take apart to put on the control board, but then I decided I'd wait. Hopefully I'll hitch a ride to staples and see if I can get it to work .

[sanddrag]

Doesn't it just make you sick that people who think up stupid junk like this are now millionaires?

On the flip side, I do plan to go buy one

[Corey Balint]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

I almost bought one to take apart to put on the control board, but then I decided I'd wait. Hopefully I'll hitch a ride to staples and see if I can get it to work .

We broke one apart a few weeks ago, and attempted to put it into an Xbox controller. heh. that was pretty cool.