Welcome. Tutorials. Script | Zen-info. Francais - HomePage browse. Platine de développement "Wiring S" TiltSensor. Learning Examples | Foundations | Hacking | Links The tilt sensor is a component that can detect the tilting of an object. However it is only the equivalent to a pushbutton activated through a different physical mechanism. This type of sensor is the environmental-friendly version of a mercury-switch. It contains a metallic ball inside that will commute the two pins of the device from on to off and viceversa if the sensor reaches a certain angle. The code example is exactly as the one we would use for a pushbutton but substituting this one with the tilt sensor. We use a pull-up resistor (thus use active-low to activate the pins) and connect the sensor to a digital input pin that we will read when needed.
The prototyping board has been populated with a 1K resitor to make the pull-up and the sensor itself. Circuit Picture of a protoboard supporting the tilt sensor, by Anders Gran Code.