Super Cheap Accelerometer with Arduino!
Measure g-forces on your car with Arduino! Idea Lets say you want to measure the g-Forces your car/bike experiences while you accelerate, take a corner, do drag race or go through a speed bump. For this you have to use a VBOX, DRAGGY or some other device for getting the acceleration(g-force) values. But the problem with these devices is that they're too expensive, like $300 and upwards. If you are not into pro kind of stuff & just want to know g-force values without spending too much, this can be useful for you. Although this is currently a bit crude, it can be improved a lot if you want to. Nonetheless, this is a fairly easy and straightforward project for its purpose. Demonstration Before getting started with the details of proj ect, have a look at this demonstration video. Because this is the final result of this project. You will be obtaining 5 values on your laptop (yes you have to carry your laptop/MacBook with you, g-values would be displayed in it only)- instantaneous