What to do with an accelerometer?

Why stop with just the glove? With a few more accelerometers you could have yourself a complete light or heavy exoskeleton, you could even be armor plated and look like you belong in Halo. So says youtube "boston dynamics exoskeleton", fwiw.

Well this is now a moot point. I killed the accelerometer on accident.

D'oh!

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Originally Posted by Oneslowz28

Well this is now a moot point. I killed the accelerometer on accident.

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Bloody vandal!

heh... how was I supposed to know that it was 3v only when the data sheet I got with it said 3-5v operating range....... I did not see any white smoke though, just no output from it now.

So now the question is "What to do with a broken accelerometer?"

Well its smaller than a 5mm LED but the breakout board its on is about 3/4 the size of a quarter. I may order a new accelerometer from digi key and try my hand at fine pinch hand soldering. Might be the excuse I need to buy a hot air rework station!

Pah, you don't need that junk. Hand methods are always best. Check here and here

(Yes, I can do this. No I can't do it anywhere near as well as these guys. I am teh suXors compared to them. Just sayin' you don't need big equipment to do big quality.)

Want another one cheap?

Hehe, I only trust documentation of the manufacturer of the IC. Did you order those level logic converters I showed you?