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Seeedstudio Tilt Sensor Tutorial
Introduction
The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate what it is like to work with a tilt sensor. These sensors are typical an on/off type sensor. Therefore, it is placed on a GPIO or Digital Pin and you simple read from the pin. If its high you are titled - if its low you are not.
Overview
For this tutorial we used the Seeedstudio Electronic Brick Starter kit which includes various sensors, components, cables and a shield to help get you started with various Seeedstudio Arduino compatible microcontrollers.
Meat and Potatoes
We like to get straight to the point. Below you will find the same code used to work with the tilt sensor. Take into account that this is a basic code example. We do not get into the all the details of how or why you would use a tilt sensor. Merely, how to code for it.
Sample Code
#include
LiquidCrystal lcd(10,11,12,13,14,15,16);
int tiltSensorPin = 8;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin( 9600 );
lcd.begin(16, 2);
lcd.clear();
pinMode( tiltSensorPin, INPUT );
}
int tiltReading = 0;
void loop()
{
tiltReading = digitalRead( tiltSensorPin );
lcd.setCursor(0,0);
lcd.print( tiltReading );
delay(1000);
lcd.clear();
}
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