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Non-mercury tilt switches are handy for reading when motion’s passed a threshold (and much cheaper than accelerometers), but sometimes hard to find. Here’s one Hatti Lim found. Thanks to Hatti for the link.

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Working with the Maxstream Xbee radios on OSX can be annoying because the screen program doesn’t print a linefeed automatically when it receives a carriage return. This Processing program works as a serial terminal program, but inserts a linefeed when it gets a carriage return.

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