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Subject: 
Re: Tilt (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:08:05 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim Choate <RAVAGE@EINSTEIN.SSZ.COMstopspammers>
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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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