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Re: Balancing robots
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:14:01 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com!saynotospam!>
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Hi Scott,

That device is called a 'Tremble Switch'. It's a good start but I think
you'll find a 'pendulum' form is more effective. You can pick them up from
any pinball repair place, they're the thing that says 'Tilt'.

Most of these are binary but you can replace the (usually metallic) sensor
ring with a non-conductive material and then put contact on it (ie glue
copper strips) and you'll get not only front/back but whatever sort of
resolution you need.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Scott Davis wrote:

Just a thought.

What if you were to set up a track for a steel ball to roll on and have some
sort of sensor at the end that would tell the rcx that the robot is falling
forwards/backwards.

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  Re: Balancing robots
 
Just a thought. What if you were to set up a track for a steel ball to roll on and have some sort of sensor at the end that would tell the rcx that the robot is falling forwards/backwards. something like so: ___...___ |_/___...___\_| ___...___ (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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