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Hi I'm Seth.

For my midterm project, I created a tilt sensing motor. I made two tilt sensors out of ball bearings and bic pens and positioned them on either side of the motor at different angles. When the motor/device is tilted in one direction, it will spin clockwise, and when tilted the other direction, counter-clockwise. Originally I wanted to control a toy that would fall over and correct itself, but the motor it used takes a little more power than I was able to supply directly from the microprocessor, so this might be considered to be a prototype. As for the aesthetic of the device, it would be fitted to the duty it was designed to perform such as a handle for a fishing pole, etc. For testing, I affixed the components to a toilet paper tube with the tilt sensors pointing up a little bit so that they won't always be triggering.

(I let my friend borrow my Arduino, so there aren't any pictures of the "device" as a whole, but here are the main components!)

And Here's the code!

int turn1 = 12; // choose the pins for controlling direction
int turn2 = 13;
int tilt1 = 4; // choose the input pin (for the tilt sensors)
int tilt2 = 5;
int val1 = 0; // variable for reading the pin status
int val2 = 0;

void setup() {

 pinMode(turn1, OUTPUT);      // declare turn pins as output

 pinMode(turn2, OUTPUT);

 pinMode(tilt1, INPUT);     // declare tilt sensors as input

 pinMode(tilt2, INPUT);

 
 digitalWrite(0,HIGH);     // write a HIGH to allow for current to flow through pin

 digitalWrite(1,HIGH);

}

void loop(){

 val1 = digitalRead(tilt1);  // read input value
 val2 = digitalRead(tilt2);
 
 if (val1 == HIGH) {         // if tilted, turn the motor!
   pinMode(turn1,OUTPUT);    // turn the pins on
   pinMode(turn2,OUTPUT);    
   digitalWrite(turn1, LOW);  // turn the motor!
   digitalWrite(turn2, HIGH);
 }
 if (val2 == HIGH) {         // if tilted, turn the motor!
   pinMode(turn1,OUTPUT);     // turn the pins on
   pinMode(turn2,OUTPUT);
   digitalWrite(turn1, HIGH);   // turn the motor the other way!
   digitalWrite(turn2, LOW);
 }
 if(val1 != HIGH && val2 != HIGH){ // if it's not tilted either way
   pinMode(turn1,INPUT);   // turn the output pins "off"
   pinMode(turn2,INPUT);
}

}

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