Back to the Accelerometer
As I mentioned in my previous post I was a bit worried that my accelerometer wasn't working properly. When hooked up along with an LED matrix there were some LEDs that just wouldn't light. It seemed like was the X-axis that was giving me trouble. Since I'd " played with it " I couldn't return it to Sparkfun, in any case it was past the 14 day limit. This is kind of a bummer because it cost me about $20 - aside from the Arduino, one of the most expensive components in my inventory. So, I decided to create a way to test it. I figured it'd be cool to find out if there was actually a range of values that the X-axis wasn't producing. To do this would involve having the Arduino read the 3 axis and output the values through the serial port. I'd then have to write some software on the other side to read the values and display them in a way that made sense. First I hooked everything up on the Arduino and proto-sheild (see image). Then I proceeded to writ...