Tilt Switch

A tilt switch contains a metallic ball inside that will commute the two pins of the device from on to off if the sensor reaches a certain angle.

Connect one leg of the tilt switch to 5 volts and the other to digital pin 2 and a 10kΩ pull-down resistor.

By omer
Created on April 9, 2009, 17:28

Category: Digital

Difficulty: kids

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

Tags: analog, input, tilt, switch

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