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Re: Tilt Sensors
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Date: 
Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:04:49 GMT
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I've built a self-leveling platform using a pendulum and light sensor approach.  The response time of the
pendulum is not very fast, but the platform does not move very fast either, so it works reasonably well.
Details can be found here:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/1604/ksc_ct.html

Note that in order to level the platform, the pendulum must swing in two dimensions.

--
Mark Haye, mark_haye(@)tivoli(.)com
IBM TSM Server Development, Tucson, AZ

"Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3A3EE9CB.1EC45E60@airmail.net...
"Hardison, Leif" wrote:

I'm curious what type of tilt sensors have been created so far...  Hoping to
save myself time by using or adapting an existing idea.

I had some success with a pendulum blocking a light sensor - and also with
a pendulum swinging from an axle with a 40t gear meshing onto an 8t gear
on a rotation sensor.

(I was trying to build a 2 wheeled vehicle like a bicycle and needed the
pendulum to balance it - both designs of pendulum worked well - but the
bike didn't  :-(

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(...) I had some success with a pendulum blocking a light sensor - and also with a pendulum swinging from an axle with a 40t gear meshing onto an 8t gear on a rotation sensor. (I was trying to build a 2 wheeled vehicle like a bicycle and needed the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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