Movement-sensitive switch

beta-j — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:12:44 -0400

Hi Guys,

I was recently rummaging about in my parts bin and i cam across this thingy:

This used to be part of a toy i had as a kid, which was a spinning top that would start to play music and flash lights when it was spun.

Accelerometer

fritsl — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:53:12 -0500

Accelerometers are very exciting little things. When I say "little", I mean it, as they usuallyfits 4 or more on a finger nail! And each typically has some 7-20 points so solder. This makes them quite hard to work with, and so I recomend that you also buy a board of some sort, so that you end up with something that you can hook up to your Microcontroller easily.

What you get from the thing is a signal. The signal can be analouge, I2C, or anything else, depending on the thing you get.

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Movement-sensitive switch

Accelerometer