The acceleration sensor developed by Xbow is a little printed
circuit board for measure the acceleration in two directions (X-Y). It
is very simple to program and it's very small. Maybe the aim is to construct
a shoe with this sensor. So we can see whether the sportsman is running
or walking (or falling ;-) ). If we memory these measurement data and graph
them, maybe we'll see a pattern (but it's probably very chaotic).
As I said before, it's very simple to program. All you have to do is
to send an ASCII 'G' over the serial port to the sensor board and you'll
get 6 chars back. Two of them for every direction (X and Y) and two
as checksum. (The protocol for calculation the accel will be added soon.)
There's also a little C++ program which I have written under Windows
NT. But be careful, there are some classes around for wrapping the serial
communication.
Code:
xbow.zip
