The Fingerbot Button Pusher Is the Laziest Genius Invention I’ve Ever Bought Drunk

Submitted by: Chris M., Seattle, WA — “I have automated exactly one button in my apartment. I have never been more satisfied.”

TL;DR: A craft beer, a Reddit thread about smart home devices, and the revelation that my coffee maker button is eleven feet from my bed and that’s eleven feet too far. The Fingerbot Plus arrived. It pushes the button for me via my phone. My coffee maker is now smart. I feel like I won.

I want to be clear that I am not a lazy person in general. I exercise. I meet deadlines. I call my parents reasonably often. But I have a specific, targeted laziness about certain morning tasks, and I have decided to stop feeling bad about this and start automating it instead.

The coffee maker button is my nemesis. My coffee maker is a very good coffee maker. I love it unconditionally. But it requires me to walk from my bed to the kitchen — a journey of roughly eleven feet — to press a single button to start it. Eleven feet in the morning, before coffee, is a significant ask.

I was explaining this problem to nobody in particular (two craft beers, Reddit smart home thread) when I found the Fingerbot.

The Fingerbot Plus

The Fingerbot Plus Smart Button Pusher is a small robotic device that physically pushes buttons. You stick it to any surface using adhesive, position its mechanical arm above the target button, connect it to your phone via Bluetooth, and then press the button remotely via app.

That’s it. That’s the whole product. It is a robot finger. It pushes your buttons so you don’t have to.

Why This Exists and Why I Respect It

There are two ways to make a non-smart device smart:

Buy a new smart version of the device
Add a small robot that physically pushes the button on your existing device

Option 2 is cheaper, simpler, and works with literally any device that has a physical button. The Fingerbot approach is elegantly low-tech: instead of connecting to the device’s internal electronics (expensive, complex, often not possible), you just replicate a human finger pressing a button.

This is either obvious or genius depending on how you look at it. After two craft beers I decided it was genius.

Setup Takes About Six Minutes

Mount the adhesive base on your surface. Clip the Fingerbot to the base. Position the mechanical arm above your button. Download the app. Connect via Bluetooth. Name your device (“Coffee” in my case, though I briefly considered “Kevin”).

You can now press your coffee maker button from your bed. Or schedule it to press automatically at a specific time. Or voice-control it if you have a smart home hub.

I scheduled mine for 7:05am. My alarm is at 7:00am. By the time I get up and walk to the kitchen, my coffee is already brewing. This five-minute window has materially improved my mornings.

The Broader Application

The coffee maker is my primary use case, but the Fingerbot works on anything with a button:

Lights that don’t have smart bulbs
An old diffuser
A fan without a smart plug
A printer (imagine pressing the power button from across the room like a wizard)
Any appliance you love but haven’t gotten around to replacing with a smart version

The adhesive is repositionable, so you can move it between devices. I’ve used mine on the coffee maker, a bedside lamp, and briefly on my air purifier before I got a smart plug.

The Face My Roommate Made

My roommate came home while I was demonstrating the Fingerbot on a video call. He watched me press a button on my phone and the coffee maker turned on. He stared at it for a long moment.

“You could just walk over there,” he said.

“I could also not walk over there,” I replied.

He bought one three days later. He uses it for his lamp.

FAQ: Fingerbot Plus Smart Button Pusher

Does it work with all devices? Any device with a physical button that can be physically pressed. It’s not picky.

Does it require a hub or just Bluetooth? Bluetooth only for direct control. For Alexa/Google Home/scheduling, you need a hub — the Fingerbot Hub is sold separately and expands the functionality significantly.

Is the adhesive reliable? The 3M adhesive holds well on smooth surfaces. It’s removable without residue if you need to reposition.

Is this actually worth it? If you have one specific button you press daily that’s inconvenient: absolutely. It’s not going to change your life, but it will change that specific morning routine. That’s enough.

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