• First connect five push switches to a bread board.
• Of course you can connect maximum of 1023 switches theoretically to a 8 bit micro controller like Arduino. 
• then inter connect resistors in between the push switches as shown in the diagram.
• connect the other end of all the switches to 5v of Arduino, as you can see here I have connected the in such a way that one end is connected to the blue line of the beard board which is connected to the 5v.
• then from the end of the final switch connect a wire to analog pin A1 of Arduino.
• then connect a resistor across A1 and GND of Arduino, which is for pull down, That is to keep the value to zero when no switch is pressed.

Let's connect some LEDs to check the functioning of our circuit.

Connect the LEDs as shown in the circuit,

• connect all the positive terminal all LEDs to the 5v.
• connect the negative terminal of each LEDs to the Digital pin D12 to D8 of Arduino respectively.
• Practically we have to connect the LEDs through resistors for good life time.

Take a look at the program, all the lines are commented properly. Now let's upload the code and see it in action.

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//https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjwtJsOrZyH7E6sBr_YJSeA
//Code by Najad

#define sw A1 //name for analog pin A1
#define led1 12
#define led2 11
#define led3 10
#define led4 9
#define led5 8

void setup() 
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(led1,INPUT); digitalWrite(led1,HIGH); //setting led1 pin HIGH ie LED will be off according to our circuit
  pinMode(led2,INPUT); digitalWrite(led2,HIGH); //setting led2 pin HIGH ie LED will be off according to our circuit
  pinMode(led3,INPUT); digitalWrite(led3,HIGH); //setting led3 pin HIGH ie LED will be off according to our circuit
  pinMode(led4,INPUT); digitalWrite(led4,HIGH); //setting led4 pin HIGH ie LED will be off according to our circuit
  pinMode(led5,INPUT); digitalWrite(led5,HIGH); //setting led5 pin HIGH ie LED will be off according to our circuit

}

void loop() 
{
  Serial.println(analogRead(sw)); // reading and printing the values from analog pin A1

  if(analogRead(sw) >197 && analogRead(sw) <207 )
  digitalWrite(led1,LOW);// LED will turn ON
  else if(analogRead(sw) >248 && analogRead(sw) <258)
  digitalWrite(led2,LOW);// LED2 will turn ON
  else if(analogRead(sw) >333 && analogRead(sw) <343)
  digitalWrite(led3,LOW);// LED3 will turn ON
  else if(analogRead(sw) >509 && analogRead(sw) <514)
  digitalWrite(led4,LOW);// LED2 will turn ON
  else if(analogRead(sw) >1015 && analogRead(sw) <1023)
  digitalWrite(led5,LOW);// LED2 will turn ON
  

}

• Keypad
• Full sized key board for Arduino.
• Custom mini keyboard for your raspberry pi tablet etc..

If you can think of another application post it in the comments.

Thanks.