Best acceleration sensors according to redditors
We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best acceleration sensors. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best acceleration sensors. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Or they bought one of these, this, and this, and now you have all the sensors for your spacecraft.
Here is the main website detailing how to build an EDTracker. You should make sure to read through this website in addition to reading my comment.
You have a few decisions to make:
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Here's what I did for my build:
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After you build the EDTracker, it requires programming and calibration. I would follow the instructions from the website above, I don't have anything to add to those instructions.
In order to make the EDTracker software work with VRidge, you'll need OpenTrack to translate between the two pieces of software. Follow the instructions here to setup the EDTracker software and OpenTrack. You'll also need to set VRidge to take sensor data from the FreeTrack protocol.
There's one very important piece of information that doesn't appear anywhere. You want to start OpenTrack immediately after the orientation has been reset in the EDTracker software. That way OpenTrack will have the same understanding of the neutral position as the EDTracker software. If this isn't done correctly, you get really strange side effects when moving around. If you then want to map a keyboard button to reset the orientation, this should be done in the EDTracker software and not the OpenTrack software.
Hopefully you find this helpful!
Yeah. These:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D6HYYSN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s01
Paired them with an ESP8266 running ESPHome.
Accelerometers measure acceleration. It's not the same as an inclinometer. You may be able to approximate tilt for your application from a single accelerometer but to eliminate false indications you would need two.
If you do use an accelerometer, keep in mind that one will not read zero in the vertical plane unless it's in freefall. If it's at rest it will give the reading of gravity (9.8m/Sec^2 )
There are tilt sensors but I have never used them. I can't say if intertia would cause problems with the reading.
https://www.amazon.com/SunFounder-Switch-Sensor-Arduino-Raspberry/dp/B014KQA3T2/ref=sr_1_2?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1478675603&sr=1-2&keywords=tilt+sensor
There are also gyroscope/accelerometer units that aren't very pricey. If you're going to use something like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi, this would be my choice.
https://www.amazon.com/Makerfire%C2%AE-Arduino-MPU-6050-Gyroscope-Accelerometer/dp/B00NH8Z6BU/ref=sr_1_1?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1478675641&sr=1-1&keywords=arduino+accelerometer
I built some custom scales using scrap hardwood and an HX711 AD converter and four 50kg load sensors for each scale. I'm running a very buggy and slightly modified version of tatobari's hx711py library on the raspberry pi to pull weight settings, but the readings are very shaky and extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, so it's only accurate to about +/-5% (which I'm comfortable with now). I have hardcoded tare weights for full and empty kegs/CO2 canisters, so the python script is sending a calculated percentage to the influxdb database (housed on another, more stable machine in my house) using the influxdb API.
My solution is a little janky but it came together quickly with tools that I'm familiar with. Other folks on r/homebrewing have come up with similar methods and PLAATO just introduced a commercial solution for weighing kegs.
Gyro is short for gyroscope though. A gyroscope is anything that measures or maintains orientation and angular velocity. The electronic ones measure orientation and angular velocity, and that’s all that’s required for them to be called gyroscopes.
If you search for “gyro sensors” on amazon you’ll find that they’re all called gyroscope sensors.
Example:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J167T84/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VbNWDbWMM8EGY
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OPNUO9U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I tried looking for a Jaguar disassembly video, but didn't have any luck. Instead, I tried searching for tilt sensors at Amazon. In addition to ones like this, which look like the ones in the older RB guitars, there were also acceleration sensor chips like this. That's a three-axis accelerometer chip, that can tell which way gravity is pointing. Maybe one of those little chips is the sensor.
How would I go about taring the scale? Also, the output isn't just noise, when I press down on the load cell, the output stays the same/follows the same patterns. This means the load cell is almost completely useless, not just inaccurate. Lastly, this is the load cell that I used https://www.amazon.com/CHENBO-Converter-Breakout-Arduion-Weighing/dp/B07Q5D9QB9?pf_rd_p=0fc3f2c4-3ed5-4d11-9995-8d7c82394713&pd_rd_wg=dYDUe&pf_rd_r=ESRG5WE28RVMKHZ8QAC8&ref_=pd_gw_cr_simh&pd_rd_w=wT58U&pd_rd_r=da6dad7b-416b-40b3-b636-32c0d7e2d642#detail-bullets
I thought I put it in the main post but apparently not.