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2. Soldering the headers

3. Plugging the board in

Once you have soldered the headers your 
board is ready to be placed into the desired 
mikroBUS

 socket. Make sure to align the cut 

in the lower-right part of the board with the 
markings on the silkscreen at the mikroBUS

 

socket. If all the pins are aligned 

correctly, push the board all the 
way into the socket.

Turn the board upward again. Make sure 
to align the headers so that they are 
perpendicular to the board, then solder the 
pins carefully.

Turn the board upside down so that 
the bottom side is facing you upwards. 
Place shorter pins of the header into the 
appropriate soldering pads.

Before using your click board

, make sure 

to solder 1x8 male headers to both left and 
right side of the board. Two 1x8 male headers 
are included with the board in the package.

4. Essential features

To use TILT-n-SHAKE click as an accelerom-
eter, keep the enable pin (EN) pulled to logic 
high. The 14-bit digital output has over ±8g 
full-scale range with 1 mg/LSB sensitivity, 
and a fast output time of about 700 micro-
seconds. As a tilt sensor, the MMA8491Q has 
three detection outputs, one for each axis: 
Xout, Yout and Zout. Three onboard LEDs will 
also signal the tilt orientation. 

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TILT-n-SHAKE click carries Freescale’s 

MMA8491Q

 IC. It’s a multifunctional 3-axis 

digital accelerometer that can also be 
configured  as  a  45-degree  Tilt  sensor.  As 
an accelerometer, it communicates with the 
target MCU through mikroBUS

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C pins (SCL, 

SDA). When configured as a Tilt sensor, the 
click board needs only one output pin — INT 
(interrupt).  TILT-n-SHAKE click is designed 
to use a 3.3V power supply only. 

1. Introduction

TILTnSHAKE click manual

ver 1.00

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