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Re: Accelerometer and PalmPilot

To: Vitaly Iourtchenko <vitaly@nuance.com>
Subject: Re: Accelerometer and PalmPilot
From: Keith Hearn <khearn@Legato.COM>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:43:46 -0700
In message <38E7B401.5C2A3271@nuance.com>, Vitaly Iourtchenko writes:
> After nursing the idea for almost a year, this finally looks like a
> summer project to me...
> 
> http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~harbaum/pilot/adxl202.html
> 
> Analog Devices was kind enough to send me two XY-axis
> accelerometers. I'm thinking of recording acceleration during
> the run, and then having the ability to check for lateral/breaking
> Gs, plotting a course based on acceleration data, replaying runs,
> checking for Gs in a particular corner, etc. Should be more accurate
> than the G-tech, and much cheaper than Geez.
> 
> Any other Palm owners interested? It seems like the difficult part
> will be making the PCB that plugs into the Palm's cradle connector.

Sounds interesting to me. How much does the chip cost?

  Keith Hearn
  '99 Miata 10AE "Sexy Sadie" the Sapphire Shark
  B-Stock
  Milpitas, CA



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