Bringing Your Accelerometer To Life - Arduino Uno Quick Start Manual

breakout board you re using!) Naturally, you ll move around the accelerometer
a lot, so it s best to use long wires.
Now that we ve connected the ADXL335 to the Arduino, let s use it.

Bringing Your Accelerometer to Life

A pragmatic strategy to get familiar with a new device is to hook it up and
see what data it delivers. The following program reads input values for all
three axes and outputs them to the serial port:
MotionSensor/SensorTest/SensorTest.ino
const unsigned int X_AXIS_PIN = A2;
const unsigned int Y_AXIS_PIN = A1;
const unsigned int Z_AXIS_PIN = A0;
const unsigned int BAUD_RATE = 9600;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(BAUD_RATE);
}
void loop() {
Serial.print(analogRead(X_AXIS_PIN));
Serial.print(" ");
Serial.print(analogRead(Y_AXIS_PIN));
Serial.print(" ");
Serial.println(analogRead(Z_AXIS_PIN));
delay(100);
}
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