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Re: Acceleromter: totally Hopeless

The accelerometer is very similar to the gyro. First you would want to calculate a bias like the gyro has. Then use ADC to grab the input from the analog input and minus the bias from it. This way you get a variable containing no background noise. Well almost no background noise. Now the number you get is returned in milivolts. 1000mv = 1g. There is code on chiefdelphi that has most of these functions already done. Use the search feature.