Project Info
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Time Invested: 2 Hours
Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
tutorials before continuing
to read this tutorial.
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Time Invested: 2 Hours
Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
tutorials before continuing
to read this tutorial.
The MEMS Accelerometer usually comes in the smallest surface mount package and can detect acceleration in up to 3 axis. This tutorial will cover capturing data for onle one axis. The PIC will be used to capture the data and make sense of it.
Purpose & Overview of this project
This tutorial is meant to show you how to use a PIC microcontroller to take data from a MEMS ADXL320 and make sense of it. To demonstrate that it works the 'tilt' sensing attribute of the accelerometer will be used.
A simple blinking LED will be used to gauge the acceleration being applied to the sensor.