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chedabob
12-03-2006, 06:03 PM
So, I know this guy who has made a tilt SATA switch. Its for an undisclosed project (its top secret), but its to allow switching between two devices.. I was thinking it would be kind of neat, for say a Windows/Linux hybrid, that booted to one when it was upright, and to another when it was lay down.

Gimme a shout if you want some. I dunno how much they will be alone, but I hear the finished project should be less than $40.
AKA_RA
12-03-2006, 06:43 PM
that would certainly be a good way to add a kill switch to something, just wire it up to deliver 12 to the wrong place when you push over your pc. lol.

about how big is the switch itself?
jaxspades
12-04-2006, 03:41 AM
That's awesome!
chedabob
12-04-2006, 04:23 AM
Its not massive, about the size of a small network card. Probably a bit smaller than that.
AKA_RA
12-04-2006, 04:59 PM
wow, thats quite compact. im very curious to know how its done, but at the same time, i want to respect the original designer if he doesn't want to post his blueprints all over the net. i wanna guess that its done with mercury, but thats not stuff to be messed with. trust me, i know....-_-
ESX
12-04-2006, 05:10 PM
Thats quite interesting, and I think I know the basic operation method :)
I'd love to see that thing working.
progbuddy
12-04-2006, 06:12 PM
Thats a neat idea. Now for the fact that not everyone's for tilting their PC over. I think it would be neat to have a deathclock type thing (put a PC on a gyro, and turn it over to run a different system).
chedabob
12-05-2006, 04:35 AM
wow, thats quite compact. im very curious to know how its done, but at the same time, i want to respect the original designer if he doesn't want to post his blueprints all over the net. i wanna guess that its done with mercury, but thats not stuff to be messed with. trust me, i know....-_-

As far as I know, its just a combination of five tilt sensors, one for each of the SATA lines.
Omega
12-05-2006, 08:56 PM
There was a guy who pulled that off with a Mini-ITX computer. He made it so when the computer was in a windows box, it booted to winxp, and in a Redhat box, it booted to Redhat Linux.

Pretty nifty, IMO.
Crimson Sky
12-05-2006, 10:02 PM
Would be cool to have to flip it say 180 degrees on the desktop and have two dif lighted logos--;)
chedabob
12-08-2006, 06:29 PM
Ok so I spoke to the guy, and he says they will be available soon for $10 each

Heres a pic

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9156/sataadaptergo8.jpg