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Re: Toshiba tablet pc adds dual axis accelerometer

Does anyone know of a supplier of accelerometers that are
CF-card, PCMCIA, or USB based?  I wouldn't mind adding
tilt scrolling to my own Compaq Tablet.

My initail, quick search via google didn't turn up anything.

-Freeman

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:45, Paul-V Khuong wrote:
> --- Steve Barr <> wrote:
> [...]
> > So, on the subject of accelerometers, are there
> > inexpensive,
> > good ones which work through a USB or serial
> > connection?
> 
> Analog accelerometers are pretty inexpensive
> (www.analog.com, ADXL-301 i think). You'd need an ADC
> to use them though; i suppose you can find a
> microcontroller board with built-in rs-232 level
> shifters. Getting the ADC shouldn't be hard, since
> many cheap mcus (PIC, fe) have one, two or more.
> Analog devices (same url) also has a slightly more
> expensive digital accelerometer. It's based on the
> same analog device, but has additional logic, and
> communicates through PWM, but i don't know if it's ok
> to plug one data wire directly in the serial port. 
> 
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