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>In article <3717@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> fredm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Fred Martin) writes:
>>robots must do is climb an inclinated plane.  Thus, I'm soliciting
>>all of you robot hackers for ideas on inclination sensors.
>
Set up an array of IR LED and detector pairs so that the pendulum only
breaks one of the beams. Run the signals from each detector into a
decimal to BCD converter and read this value directly into the computer.

Personaly, I like the joystick idea best since it would provide both
pitch and roll measurement but the IR LED approach gets rid of the
A/D converter.

HOWEVER: if you used an A/D converter with an 8 to 1 input mux you
could measure pitch, roll, battery voltage, radio link signal strength,
drive motor temperature, and three other analog parameters with the
one chip.

John

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Someday my sysadm will decide this is a 'real' problem. :-)
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