If you’ve ever played any video games that use consoles which you can tilt to different angles, thus navigating your racing car in the desired direction, you had dealt with a tilt sensor.
Tilt sensors used to be made by using a drop of mercury in an enclosed casing. Being not-so-environmentally-friendly, the new tilt sensors are designed avoiding this toxic element. The rolling ball sensor switch used in this click (RB-441-45 by C&K Switches) uses gold-plated terminals and a gold-plated ball in order to minimize the contact resistance. It’s very durable - enclosed in a PBT plastic and with very good electric insulation properties.
Not only you can use the Tilt 2 click to make a DIY video game console, but you can also apply its awesomeness to design portable heaters, pinball machines, any kind of position-activated toys, as well as for some safety and security control systems.
Basically, the Tilt 2 click works like this: it breaks the circuit when tilted to an angle of 45° or when shaken.
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