Cheap tilt sensor

[Jdog]

I found this instructable which might be beneficial to some people on this sight.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Five_cent_Tilt_Sensor/
Although, I don't like the way he wired it. I would personally recommend wiring positive to the nickel, negative to a 10k resistor and to the nickel, and then each corner pin to a digital input. I think that makes more sense.

[Razor Concepts]

You don't need a 10k resistor, or have positive connected. Just connect the nickel to ground and the pins to the digital inputs and treat them as buttons.

[Jdog]

Every time I've seen a button I've always seen it with a 10k resistor.

[airman00]

Every time I've seen a button I've always seen it with a 10k resistor.

Probably because the resistor is when you want a Pull-Up or Pull-Down design - meaning the input pin will constantly be HIGH or LOW until the button is pressed, in which case it becomes the inverse logic value( constant HIGH would become LOW , etc.)

[Razor Concepts]

With AVRs you can just enable an internal pull-up resistor in the programming.

[Jdog]

Every time I've seen a button I've always seen it with a 10k resistor.

Probably because the resistor is when you want a Pull-Up or Pull-Down design - meaning the input pin will constantly be HIGH or LOW until the button is pressed, in which case it becomes the inverse logic value( constant HIGH would become LOW , etc.)

Oh that makes sense, I always wondered why they did that.