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| Old pinball machines do indeed use a pendulum and ring arrangement to detect tilt. (They also have a ball on a track that rolls toward the back if the front of the machine is lifted up.) The only trick with constructing such with MindStorms (this is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| You could always program the bot to only respond to a sustained contact. What kind of bot will it be used in, some kind of car that will stop if it tries to climb a hill, or maybe a crane that stops when reaching a particular angle? James ----- (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The problem you mentioned is not unique to the pendulum and ring arrangement, but also happens with any tilt detection mechanisms, right? After all, according to Einstein's theory of gravity, you cannot differentiate gravity from (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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