Tiles are not reflective.
Each tile might have 3 measurements along the length of the tile ... Continuous is not critical.
Capacitive suggests some sort if contact...even if just to set a spacing. I would prefer no contact.
The tile is firmly clamped and this controls the tilt.
Thanks so much for the responses. I have attached answers to hopefully all of the questions you posed above and also added some 3D models to clear up the confusion from the original posting.
The crux of the problem is that if I simply cast a shadow with the edge of the part onto a surface...
I'm reaching out to the eng-tips community to share a problem I'm working on to get some help. (see attachment)
The problem that I'm working on involves measuring the relative height on the left and right bottom edges of a tile as it moves past a detector arrangement. I need to know the height...
