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Re: Tilt (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:08:05 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN^spamcake^.ssz.com>
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----- Forwarded message from Pete Hardie -----

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 08:40:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Tilt (fwd)
From: Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@dvsg.sciatl.com>

Jim Choate wrote:

----- Forwarded message from Matt Ramadanovic -----

From: "Matt Ramadanovic" <matthew.ramadanovic@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Tilt
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:43:55 -0500

What if you made a device like a level but with a fluid that conducted
electricity better. When the bubble is in the center it wouldn't be
completing the circuit (off). When it on the side, it would complete a
circuit (on). Just an Idea.

----- End of forwarded message from Matt Ramadanovic -----

There's no way the bubble will keep fluid from leaking through on the bottem
side. The gas will rise to the top and spread out under hydrostatic
pressure.

But if the contacts are on top and bottom of the tube, the bubble will separate
them
from conductive fluid, right?

----- End of forwarded message from Pete Hardie -----

That'd work, make sure the liquid doesn't wet the container or the contacts
or you'll get a noisy switch.

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