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Re: Lego Mindstorms sensors

What I remember doing in my FLL days (before the NXT!) was building up the area around the sensor with other bricks to make a large flush plate. The sensor is designed to be pushed all the way into the housing without damage, and the surrounding support helps take the load off the sensor casing.

But even better would be to device a system where the sensor is normally pushed, and impact causes it to be released. I could see you doing this by some kind of lever, where pushing down on the lever causes the end on the sensor to go up. You could also point the sensor downwards and have a link that gets pushed down, releasing the sensor.
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