Using an accelerometer to detect crashes on go-karts

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Hello everyone,

I work at a go-kart track and am trying to write a crash detection program to sense when there is an impact, and then slow the kart down for ~10 seconds. We have all the hardware down and how the Arduino will connect to the kart to slow it down, but the software is where we are having trouble. I have looked all over the forums to see if anyone has written a simple program using exclusively an accelerometer to sense the impacts. Does anyone have any suggestions for an accelerometer exclusive crash detection program?

(Also I am relatively new to C++ but have some experience in code structure)

Thanks all!

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Get some experience reading the accelerometer output before even thinking of crash detection. There must be 1,000 different types of "crashes" that you might have. Only your testing will show you what might be important.

Paul