I recently bought an oscilloscope on trade me (New Zealand version of ebay), and the guy who sold it to me also very kindly gave me a good amount of components with it. Among these components were a reasonably large number of micro switches, around 35-40 of them, mostly the same size, along with some fixtures for them. As I currently only deal with audio, I have no idea what to do with them all, but I have been wanting to branch out into other areas of electronics for a while. What do you suggest I use them for?
Thanks,
Edward

 

Put them on your parts drawers so they will turn on a light when you need to see inside the drawer.

 

You could make an electronic piano.

 

Sell the surplus on ebay

 

Make a little rolling robot, use some for bump sensors.

If you like beer you could stick one under each one and have an alarm go off if a stranger grabs it. This would also work for sports memorabilia, expensive art object etc..

 

Or you could put one under each beer and connect them to a counter. When the quantity gets to a critical level, sound an alarm and go buy more beer.

 

Or you could put one under each beer and connect them to a counter. When the quantity gets to a critical level, sound an alarm and go buy more beer.

I like that way of handling critical moments! Pity I do not drink beer...but yes wine from time to time.

Wondering if it would work there too

 

You could make an electronic piano.

Or a player piano... like the music boxes with a cylinder covered with pins. Instead of plucking the tuned metal fingers, the pins would push the micro-switches. The micro-switches would control oscillator gates. I had a student do this as part of a laser light show...pre micro-controllers.

Ken