Category: The Terrific Tilt Switch (With Processing)

With the Arduino attached to a Processing sketch running on your computer, the digital information (L’s and H’s) from the Arduino can be changed to a horizontally moving white circle based on the orientation of the tilt switch, as shown in Figure 18-5 and Example 18-2. TECH NOTE Check out the Processing sketch listings for Arduino projects. Example 18-2. The pa_Tilt Processing sketch Figure 18-5. An interactive…

It’s time to upload the Arduino sketch for the Terrific Tilt Switch. Example 18-1 takes information from the tilt switch and sends it to the Arduino IDE (integrated development environment) Serial Monitor, displaying a series of the characters “H” and “L” with each rotation of the tilt switch. Did you notice that parts of the program look like…

The Terrific Tilt Switch, like the Amazing Pushbutton, requires a USB cable to send digital information from the switch to the computer screen. As shown in Figure 18-1, the device is quite simple to build: it requires just a 1KΩ fixed resistor and a tilt switch. The two components are connected in series like the Amazing Pushbutton device.…

Figure 18-1. The Terrific Tilt Switch

Processing is an awesome programming language that creates graphics and pictures that you can move in fun ways across the computer screen. Do you remember the tilt switch. It was an electrical device capable of controlling electronic devices, based on its orientation or position. If you combine the Processing language with a tilt switch, you can…