Thread: Accelerometers & Gyros for N00bs
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Accelerometers & Gyros for N00bs
This summer, Vex is releasing accelerometer & gyroscope sensors, and I've been trying to figure out how they work and what they'd be used for. I tried reading posts from multiple sources and kinda sorta have an impression of how they work, but then I'll read something that seems to contradict the what I had mentally constructed from what I read previously.

Can anyone explain to a not-very-techie-type person (think "stay-at-home mom drafted as technical mentor/coach") how these 2 sensors work, and give some instances of when you would find them useful?
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