Hi, I'm a bit confused trying to work out accelerometer values, the way I understand it I thought an accelerometer would measure the acceleration and direction of movement? Is this true though? I had a little go at an accelerometer a little while ago, and I was getting measurements such as
X: 96 Y: 60 Z: 385
And even if the accelerometer didn't move at all, it would get similar values which would make me think its not getting acceleration values at all but more of a X, Y, Z tilt coordinate type thing. I'm also thinking that to get actual acceleration values I would have to find the rate over the different X, Y and Z readings and not use the values given by the device. Is this right or did I just not quite understand what is going on?
Cheers
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Apologies guys, I don't exactly understand the maths involved in obtaining the accelerometer data, but some more google searching has answered my questions above, honestly I was so sure it just gave accelerometer data that I didn't even think that it gave anything different which is why I jumped on the forum. Apologies for the waste of the thread.