Saturday, October 20, 2007

Transparent Tilt Switches


Began to fabricate the tilt switches, came up with a solution for a transparent tilt switch using a plastic tube, springs and metal rod. The goal was to create a switch that took advantage of the one pole contact of the opaque, metal tube tilt switch. Using the spring inside the plastic tube, allows for continuous negative contact and than separate positive contacts on either end. This allows for different results from tilting, such as direction or speed of motor. Still working on a using the switch to control speed, perhaps with a series of resistors on each contact different than the other in the amount. I have included a video to show the result.

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