Tilt Switch

Detects if it has been tilted beyond a certain point.

Learn how to make your own tilt switch here.

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Basic tilt switch example

# --- Imports
import digitalio
import time
import board

# --- Variables
tilt_switch = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D13)
tilt_switch.direction = digitalio.Direction.INPUT

# --- Functions

# --- Setup

# --- Main loop
while True:
    if tilt_switch.value is False:
        print("False")
    else:
        print("True")
    time.sleep(0.05)  # Make the loop run a little bit slower