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Originally Posted by Becca334
My team is looking into using a gyro and I know how to wire it but what I'm not sure is how to mount it onto the robot. How would you go about mounting the gyro onto the robot?
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It depends on how you want to use it. The gyroscope sensor senses rotation in the plane of the board, so if you want to sense the robot turning, put it level somewhere on the robot. It doesn't matter a whole lot where, but you may want to center it (seems like this shouldn't be an issue at all....). If you want to use it to measure the robot tipping, say, forward and back, you would mount it vertically to put that rotation in plane with the sensor.
If you want to try and balance this way I would suggest using the accelerometer since this will give you an absolute "heading" of sorts, whereas the gyro only gives rate which must be integrated to get heading. The software does this for you, but since all you care about is the heading, the accelerometer is better suited.