Building a TiltBox — A Tiny Tilt-Controlled Game Console

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Last month we visited MakerFaire in Ghent. Among the 3D printers, robot arms, and LED installations, one project caught my kids’ attention more than anything else: a small wooden box with a glowing 8x8 LED matrix that you control by tilting it. The TiltBox, designed by Tom Michiels. The kids kept going back to it. They played maze, they played snake, they tilted and flipped and laughed. A few days later I decided to build one.

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Building a TiltBox — A Tiny Tilt-Controlled Game Console