The Button Box

The Button Box

Changing lives with the press of a button.

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Why Button Box

Accessible play should be financially feasible.

Current solutions are too costly for classrooms and financially unfeasible for families. The Button Box is designed to make accessible buttons obtainable for schools, families, and communities.

Affordable

Built around an affordable, open-source design goal so more classrooms and families can create switch-accessible play without relying on high-cost commercial devices.

Plug & Play

Typical toy adaptions can take hours. Our solution allows a toy to be acessible in seconds.

Innovative Design

The Button Box switch was designed with clinicians in mind. We used feedback from clinics to build a practical solution.

Fast, Printable, Customizable

An innovative design for scaled toy adaption.

Make a Toy Accessible in Seconds

The Button Box comes with a battery adapter to allow you to plug & play today.

3D Print Button

Design is organized around three easily printable parts with no screws required.

Brace Bands as Spring Mechanism

Rubber Band Spring Mechanism keeps build simple and allows force required to activate switch to change to meet the person's needs.

Open Source for Community Good

Designed to be shared, improved, and built at home.

Our goal is not to simply distribute a high-quality product. We want to break the barriers to using accessible technology. We hope that our Button Box inspires people to create affordable technology to positively impact their community.

Build Your Button

Open-source files and instruction guide

Have a 3D printer and want to help your community? Download our files and start building a button today.

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Impact

Built for teachers, students, and local communities.

The Button Box project is focused on reaching low-resource areas, producing button boxes at scale, and reducing the cost to play.

60%of North Carolina counties reached.
100+Button Boxes produced.
30 secondsto make a compatible toy accessible with the Button Box approach.

“The impact on our students has been incredible. While we do have a few other buttons and toy adapters in our school system, none compare to the one provided. We saw smiles, engagement, and participation that can sometimes be difficult to achieve.” - North Carolina Educator