EDUMKII AccelerometerSerial

This Example uses the Accelerometer and reports the data through the Serial Monitor.

Example Video

Hardware Required

  • TI LaunchPad

  • Educational BoosterPack MKII

Schematic

None. This basic example just uses your LaunchPad and BoosterPack only.

Code

/*
 ADXL3xx 3-axis accelerometer example for Educational BoosterPack MK II
 http://boosterpackdepot.info/wiki/index.php?title=Educational_BoosterPack_MK_II

 Absolute rating/conversion can be determined from the ADXL3xx datasheet.
 As a quick reference, for LaunchPads with 12-bit ADC (MSP430F5529, Tiva C, etc.),
 the entire analog  range is [0,4096]. For simple tilting calculation
 [-1g,1g] ~ = [mid-800, mid + 800] = [2048-800,2048+800] = [1248,2848]

 Modified from ADXL3xx example by David A. Mellis & Tom Igoe

 Reads an Analog Devices ADXL3xx accelerometer and communicates the
 acceleration to the computer.  The pins used are designed to be easily
 compatible with the breakout boards from Sparkfun, available from:
 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?c=80

 http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ADXL3xx

 The circuit:

 * analog 25: z-axis
 * analog 24: y-axis
 * analog 23: x-axis

 created 2 Jul 2008
 by David A. Mellis
 modified 30 Aug 2011
 by Tom Igoe
 modified 03 Dec 2013
 by Dung Dang

 This example code is in the public domain.

*/


const int xpin = 23;                  // x-axis of the accelerometer
const int ypin = 24;                  // y-axis
const int zpin = 25;                  // z-axis (only on 3-axis models)

void setup()
{
  // By default MSP432 has analogRead() set to 10 bits.
  // This Sketch assumes 12 bits. Uncomment to line below to set analogRead()
  // to 12 bit resolution for MSP432.
  //analogReadResolution(12);

  // initialize the serial communications:
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
  // print the sensor values:
  Serial.print(((int) analogRead(xpin)) - 2048);
  // print a tab between values:
  Serial.print("\t");
  Serial.print(((int) analogRead(ypin)) - 2048);
  // print a tab between values:
  Serial.print("\t");
  Serial.print(((int) analogRead(zpin)) - 2048);
  Serial.println();
  // delay before next reading:
  delay(100);
}
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