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Re: Sensors

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
An accelerometer does NOT return angle. It returns the sum of all acceleration applied to it in the axis it measures.
I should have said let's you calculate angle based on gravity. Which would be a viable auto balancer, just tell it to set the angle to 0. I had said angle because of how I have personally used the accelerometer in phones and iPods. Sorry for any confusion.
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