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Cybersecurity: Radio Tilt Control

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  • Cybersecurity: Radio Tilt Control
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    • 1.0
      Measure Accelerometer Tilt
    • 1.1
      Test Tilts
    • 1.2
      A Bit About Acceleration
    • 1.3
      Inside the micro:bit Accelerometer
    • 1.4
      How the Project Works
    • 1.5
      Try This: Take X and Y Rotation Samples
    • 1.6
      Your Turn: Combine Tilt and Rotation
    • 1.7
      Measure Rotation Angles
    • 1.8
      Measuring Rotation Angles
    • 1.9
      How Measuring Rotation Angles Works
    • 1.10
      Did You Know? Trigonometry and Rotation Angles
    • 1.11
      Measure How Far from Vertical or Level
    • 1.12
      How It Works
    • 1.13
      Z-Axis: Which Way Is Up?
    • 1.14
      How it Works: Z-axis
    • 1.15
      Did You Know? This Way Up
    • 1.16
      Try This: Get Familiar Z-Axis Angle Measurements
    • 1.17
      Your Turn: All Together Now
    • 1.18
      Display Tilt Direction
    • 1.19
      Your Turn: Display Tilt Direction
    • 1.20
      Tilt Radio Tests
    • 1.21
      Radio-Transmit Tilt
    • 1.22
      Radio-Receive Tilt
    • 1.23
      How the Tilt Radio Tests Work
    • 1.24
      Tilt Control Forward & Backward
    • 1.25
      Rapid Radio-Transmit Tilt Data
    • 1.26
      Rapid Radio-Receive Tilt Plus Forward/Backward Control
    • 1.27
      Adding a Stop Range
    • 1.28
      Transmitter Displays Stop Range
    • 1.29
      Receiver Full Tilt Control & Stop Range
    • 1.30
      Add Left/Right Tilt Control
    • 1.31
      Update the Receiver cyber:bot project
    • 1.32
      How the Receiver Works

Measure Accelerometer Tilt

The micro:bit module’s accelerometer has three sensing axes: x, y, and z. You can picture the x-axis running side-to-side, the y-axis running front-to-back, and the z-axis pointing upwards.

When the micro:bit is held still, the accelerometer can sense how much each of these axes aligns with the downward pull of gravity. This can, in turn, be used to sense how you have tilted the micro:bit. In this activity, you will explore how the various numbers the micro:bit reports for its x and y accelerometer axes relate to its tilt direction and level.


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