This circuit uses a homemade tilt switch to activate a laptop theft alarm. When the laptop is moved from a horizontal to vertical position, the tilt switch completes a circuit to trigger an alarm generator. The generator uses a monostable multivibrator IC to sound a buzzer for 3 minutes when the laptop is moved. The simple circuit can be built very compactly to fit and conceal inside a laptop case to deter theft.
This circuit uses a homemade tilt switch to activate a laptop theft alarm. When the laptop is moved from a horizontal to vertical position, the tilt switch completes a circuit to trigger an alarm generator. The generator uses a monostable multivibrator IC to sound a buzzer for 3 minutes when the laptop is moved. The simple circuit can be built very compactly to fit and conceal inside a laptop case to deter theft.
This circuit uses a homemade tilt switch to activate a laptop theft alarm. When the laptop is moved from a horizontal to vertical position, the tilt switch completes a circuit to trigger an alarm generator. The generator uses a monostable multivibrator IC to sound a buzzer for 3 minutes when the laptop is moved. The simple circuit can be built very compactly to fit and conceal inside a laptop case to deter theft.
This circuit uses a homemade tilt switch to activate a laptop theft alarm. When the laptop is moved from a horizontal to vertical position, the tilt switch completes a circuit to trigger an alarm generator. The generator uses a monostable multivibrator IC to sound a buzzer for 3 minutes when the laptop is moved. The simple circuit can be built very compactly to fit and conceal inside a laptop case to deter theft.
Copyright:
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1/ 1
CIRCUIT
IDEAS
LAPTOP PROTECTOR S.C. DW
IVEDI
D. MOHAN KUMAR age through a water-activated tilt fectively shorts the contacts, so the out- switch only when the probes in the put of IC1 remains low. The alarm gen-
P rotect your valuable laptop tilt switch make contact with water. erator remains silent in the standby against theft using this minia- When the tilt switch is kept in the hori- mode as trigger pin 5 of IC2 is low. ture alarm generator. Fixed in- zontal position, the inverting input of When someone tries to take the side the laptop case, it will sound a IC1 gets a higher voltage than its non- laptop case, the unit takes the vertical loud alarm when someone tries to take inverting input and the output remains position and the tilt switch breaks the the laptop. This highly sensitive cir- low. electrical contact between the probes. cuit uses a homemade tilt switch to IC CD4538 (IC2) is used as a Immediately the output of IC1 be- activate the alarm through tilting of monostable with timing elements R5 comes high and monostable IC2 is trig- the laptop case. and C1. With the shown values, the gered. The low output from IC2 trig- The circuit uses readily available output of IC2 remains low for a pe- gers the pnp transistor (T1) and the components and can be assembled on riod of three minutes. CD4538 is a pre- buzzer starts beeping. a small piece of Vero board or a gen- cision monostable multivibrator free Assemble the circuit as compactly eral-purpose PCB. It is powered by a from false triggering and is more reli- as possible so as to make the unit 12V miniature battery used in remote able than the popular timer IC 555. Its matchbox size. Make the tilt switch us- control devices. output becomes high when power is ing a small (2.5cm long and 1cm wide) IC TLO71 (IC1) is used as a volt- switched on and it becomes low when plastic bottle with two stainless pins age comparator with a potential di- the trigger input (pin 5) gets a low-to- as contacts. Fill two-third of the bottle vider comprising R2 and R3 provid- high transition pulse. with water such that the contacts never ing half supply voltage at the non-in- The unit is fixed inside the laptop make electrical path when the tilt verting input (pin 3) of IC1. The in- case in horizontal position. In this po- switch is in vertical position. Make the verting input receives a higher volt- sition, water inside the tilt switch ef- bottle leakproof with adhesive or wax. Fix the tilt switch inside the enclo- sure of the circuit in horizontal posi- tion. Fit the unit in- side the laptop case in horizontal position using ad- hesive. Use a minia- ture buzzer and a micro switch (S1) to make the gadget compact. Keep the laptop case in hori- zontal position and switch on the unit. Your laptop is now protected.
122 • OCTOBER 2007 • ELECTRONICS FOR YOU WWW.EFYMAG.COM
