GestureSense Sensor

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

or a pallet of quacking rubber ducks, they would likely end up on First choice.

I'd love to see FIRST students' take on Adam Savage's duck bombs.

[seg9585]

We picked two of these up on FIRST Choice. I actually got very excited to see them, tons of possibilities for near-range object grabbing or self-aligning ability.

I'm writing some arduino code and building a mount this week that will incorporate both sensors placed orthogonal to each other to provide 3 DOF motion detection (Z gets double-booked here so I'll probably sample both and average).
I'll let you know how it all goes.

[DuaneB]

I just tried this sensor and get very erratic readings from the X axis, but the Z axis seems fairly stable. If I use a narrow object, like a finger instead of my palm, it seems slightly better, but still too erratic to drive a feedback control loop. I’m using the I2C interface, for what that’s worth. Has anyone else seen this behavior, or know what might cause it?