tilt sensor
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knew of cheap Tilt sensors for my robot. I
need to know how steep of terrain it is on and I figure a tilt sensor is the
best. With this in mind I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a cheap
product that is easily integrated with the Basic Stamp2. digital would be
nice, but analogue will do. Any suggestions would aslo be of great use.
Thanks in advance,
Travis
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I was wondering if anyone knew of cheap Tilt sensors for my robot. I
need to know how steep of terrain it is on and I figure a tilt sensor is the
best. With this in mind I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a cheap
product that is easily integrated with the Basic Stamp2. digital would be
nice, but analogue will do. Any suggestions would aslo be of great use.
Thanks in advance,
Travis
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thermostat. Check with your local HVAC people. A number of these switches
can be set at different static angles - and will trigger at different
levels......
ag
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From: "Travis M" <travis_m25@h...>
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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] tilt sensor
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew of cheap Tilt sensors for my robot. I
> need to know how steep of terrain it is on and I figure a tilt sensor is
the
> best. With this in mind I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a
cheap
> product that is easily integrated with the Basic Stamp2. digital would be
> nice, but analogue will do. Any suggestions would aslo be of great use.
> Thanks in advance,
> Travis
>
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potentiometer with a rigid wire attached perpendicularly to its axle. Put a
weight (a fishing lead could do) on the other end of the wire, so that
gravity it will turn the axle proportionally to the tilt of the pots body
(the pot's body should be fixed to the robot platform). You will need some
physical space for this system.
Then you can read the pot value using the "pot" command of the BS.
You can read positive and negative tilts just placing the horizontal
position to coincide with the medium point of the pot
If you want to be full digital, use a magnet at the end of the wire and
place a set of reed-switches to detect the tilt.
But it may use too many inputs of your BS! If so, use the switches to
connect resistors in sequence to just one input and again use "pot", this
time to select among the resulting fixed resistor values. You will have to
carefully adjust the position of the reed switches so that each closes
before the previous one opens. Possibly a complicated task!
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Good luck!
Jose Luis
>Can you tell me how to post answers thru the group? I get my messages
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>Good luck!
>
>Jose Luis
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>Jose -
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Regards,
Bruce Bates
>At 9/26/2001 Wednesday 05:12 PM, Jose Luis Juarez promulgated:
>
> >Can you tell me how to post answers thru the group? I get my messages
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> >Jose Luis
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calibration, you simply spin the stepper and pole the mercury switch at each
step. When it changes state, you look up the tilt via look-up table. Just
a thought........
ag
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using hall-effect sensors suspended in two plastic boxes. the output went to
a/d conversion through the stamp and then controlled servos.
it worked very well.
mikey hart
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