Adafruit Triple-Axis Accelerometer Breakout Boards
- Adafruit 1231, The Adafruit ADXL345 Triple-Axis Accelerometer is a neat 3-axis accelerometer with adjustable sensitivity & a choice of either I2C or SPI bus connectivity. Select from ±2, 4, 8 or 16g sensitivity; ±2g gives a higher resolution for slow movements while ±16g is best for high speed tracking. It can be configured to detect a single tap, a double tap & free-fall. Supplied as a fully assembled & tested accelerometer board plus a strip of 0.1in. pitch header pins for you to solder on as required. Adafruit provide a free tutorial & an open source Arduino library to help get you started. If you aren't familiar with installing libraries into the Arduino IDE, follow Adafruit's simple guide. The library is well structured & it should be possible to port to other microcontrollers without too much effort. Adafruit 1231 ADXL345 Triple-Axis Accelerometer