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Re: Self-Balancing 2 Wheeled Robot

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Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05
I've decided to use a potentiometer connected to a "feeler" to sense the angle that the bot is at. Once I get that working, I'll buy some IR sensors and use those.
You could use the pot as the pivot point for a small pendulum mounted inside the frame. It might have to be heavy to overcome the static friction of the pot, but it would be doable. The value of the pot would be proportional to the tilt angle.