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Re: Unable to read accelerometer

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Originally Posted by ZehP View Post
The accelerometer is an analog device. Try hooking it up to the analog breakout instead of the D I/O board. You might have a bit more success.

Also, you may want to reference this PDF. It contains information on the 2012 Accelerometer and Gyro.
You should probably re-read the document you posted. The Accelerometer is read via SPI/I2C bus, and not via plain analog values like the gyro.
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