ADXL345 Accelerometer Tutorial

Data from the built-in 3-axis accelerometer of the Terasic DE10-Nano is measured on ALL 3 axes to show when the board is in motion. The raw output of the accelerometer is converted to g-force values by a sensor library and then sent to graphing software for data visualization and interpretation.

In this tutorial you will:

• Interface with the board's built-in digital accelerometer using an I2C interface.
• Use Intel’s I/O and sensor libraries (MRAA and UPM) to get data from the accelerometer.
• Monitor and observe acceleration data for small vibration and movement along the x, y, z axes.
• Translate the acceleration data into +/- g-force values to demonstrate the motion of the Terasic DE10-Nano board.
• Show the accelerometer data using different open-source technologies:
• Express* (web server)
• Plotly* (graphing library)
• Websocket* (data stream).

Note: Both Express.js and Plotly.js are non-restrictive MIT* licensed technologies.

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Source: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/adxl345-accelerometer-tutorial