µ[micro]electronics info - accelerometer

Wii Motion sensor and Arduino

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:06:55 +0000

How to read the gyro data from Wii Motion Plus by an Arduino.

TiltStick

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:52:15 +0000

A small acceleration sensing device in form of a USB stick.

Maze in a Box

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:40:50 +0000

Maze in a Box is a portable game in which you tilt a TV to navigate your way around a 3D maze as though you were in it.

Weeboy - A portable, color, tilt-controlled video game system

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:17:39 +0000

The Weeboy is a portable color video game system that is not dependent on stationary displays or external power sources and features novel tilt-based control.

Motion controlled MP3 player

admin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:49:33 +0000

The MP3 player does not have any buttons nor dials that shown in right photo and it has an acceleration sensor instead of the mechanical switches. Therefore all playback commands to the player are given in defined motions, such as inclination, tilt and shock. The player detects the motion with the built-in acceleration sensor and recognize it as a playback control command. As the result, it came to not seem an audio player in appearance.

My first experiments with accelerometers

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:59:06 +0000

...or Would you like to built your own Wiimote? :)

Accelerometer again...

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:32:52 +0000

I've published the article about AVR-based accelerometer a few days ago. Here is another stuff with Microchip PIC.

AVR Accelerometer

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:16:28 +0000

Jesper Hansen's accelerometer named AccelR8 based on Analog Devices' MEMS chip

Accelerometer Based Mouse

admin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:10:37 +0000

This article shows how to use an use an accelerometer as a mouse. The project uses a MEMS X/Y accelerometer, a PIC microcontroller and a old mouse. It also describes a trick for powering the new mouse with the unused RS232 serial control lines.