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How to Use an Accelerometer with Arduino (Lesson #41)

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How to use an analog accelerometer with an Arduino. This video is about the 3-axis ADXL335 but the concepts apply to other accelerometers as well. Download the example code here: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/how-to-use-an-arduino?ytid=zpV7ac3ecl4&ytsrc=description#step41

0:00 introduction
0:23 hardware overview
2:01 Arduino pin connections
2:57 code
3:58 serial print
6:04 how an accelerometer works
12:21 unit conversion math
22:02 unit conversion code
27:20 calibration

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