Tilt Switches Made from Bottles of Craft Beads
If you are looking for a mercury-free tilt switch that you can make yourself on the cheap and quick as I was, then follow along and I will show you how to make some from little tiny bottles of crafting beads.
Step 1Stuff you Need
In order to make something similar, you will need....
- a small bottle and cork (mine came with my metalic beads...score!)
- some tiny metalic beads (Some are conductive, some are not. anything silvery usually is, they need to be tiny to flow well and make good overall contact. A decent substitute would be teeny balls of tin foil.)
- paper clips or a similar stiff bit of wire
- a thicker gauge of copper wire, I used house wiring
- some hook-up wire
- some glue or some acrylic paint
Read More...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Tilt-Switches-Made-from-Bottles-of-Craft-Beads/
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