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super cheap tilt sensor?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 21 May 2002 12:05:07 GMT
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I was wondering if anyone knew of any extremely cheap and easy way of making
a tilt sensor - that preferably doesn't involve transistors, etc.
The best I can come up with are some mercury tilt switches with some
resistors - so that a single input port can sense the states of 4 or 5
mercury switches. This would be good for detecting if something is tilting
forward, backward, left or right - but I'd prefer if it was more analog
(like a light sensor). Maybe there could be a pendulum hooked up to some
kind of extremely loose variable resistor or "pot". But I don't know where
to buy those.
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| (...) It somewhat depends on how rapidly the tilt can change - and whether you intend to try to keep the robot level or just to know how much it's tilted by. For relatively slow rotation speeds, you can use a pendulum with a rotation sensor at the (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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