{"id":9456,"date":"2007-02-15T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2007-02-15T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:55:04","slug":"ingeniously-simple-tilt-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9456","title":{"rendered":"Ingeniously Simple Tilt Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/tiltSwitch.jpg\">One of my all-time favorite hardware hacks is the BEAM touch sensor made out of little more than a paper clip and a piece of guitar string. You can see this type of switch on the tail of <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=Reviews&#038;file=index&#038;req=showcontent&#038;id=66\" target=\"new\">Herbie the Mousebot<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/E14GB1P4ZNEXCFFZCM?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"new\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a similarly ingenious switch that uses little more than pieces of plastic, a washer and three screws to create a tilt sensor that engages the switch when the plastic wheel turns. Nifty. <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\" target=\"new\">Make<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite hardware hacks is the BEAM touch sensor made out of little more than a paper clip and a piece of guitar string. You can see this type of switch on the tail of Herbie the Mousebot. Here&#8217;s a similarly ingenious switch that uses little more than pieces of plastic, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ingeniously Simple Tilt Switch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}