At 10:09 PM -0700 8/24/01, Ned Seith wrote:
>As I have worked with accelerometers for a few decades conducting product
>vibration and shock reliability tests, I was perplexed at the notion that an
>accelerometer would be deployed as a "Tilt-o-meter" or as a position sensor.

They make fine tilt-o-meters, actually, always measuring wrt gravity
pulling "down" (tilt one slowly and watch the output as the gravity
vector tilts relative to the sensor). In fact, here's a page showing
how to modify your Palm computer to play a rolling ball game by just
tilting it:

http://bodotill.suburbia.com.au/adxl202/adxl202.html

Dave Johnson

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