We are familiar with instant coffees from coffee machines. Have you ever thought of the electronic hub behind the press button tea/ coffee? Hope this article gets you a simple understanding of it.
We might have heard of multivibrators and their working. Many of us fail to site out a physical example of it. A monostable multivibrator has a stable output unless it is triggered by an external pulse. When the external pulse is given manually and, it travels to an astable state from its monostable state. Now let's get back to the latter; the coffee machine.
A monostable multivibrator is installed in a coffee machine to bring out previously described engineering. The external trigger is the single button press that we give on the machine to get our coffee brewed in. The coffee machine is in its monostable state (idle) unless triggered by a press button. When it is triggered, the monostable multivibrator transmits the state of coffee machine to its brewing stage.