View Single Post
  #25   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 19-01-2009, 13:46
tpage22's Avatar
tpage22 tpage22 is offline
Registered User
AKA: Taylor Page
FRC #1503 (GM Spartonics)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Burlington, Ontario
Posts: 8
tpage22 is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: Noisy Accelerometer

any accelerometer is going to give you a good deal of noise. Try using one that supports I2C. There are ports for I2C right on the digital sidecar, and I have heard that the these accelerometers eliminate most of the noise by themselves.

A affordable method I've thought about is using the Wiimote's Nunchuck. It uses the I2C protocol to interface with the wiimote, it only costs $25, and the accelerometer inside it goes for $40 last time I checked.

There are a lot of resources on the internet geared specifically towards interfacing with the nunchuck.