Started prototyping on the Arduino. I then realized that was stupid. I bent the shit out of the headers I soldered on, wasn’t necessary, and then figured out what was really causing me grief. It turns out the library for the accelerometer I’m uses variable names that are used in the library for the Thing. I was kinda suspecting this, I looked into it, I brushed it by looking at the comments. Problem solved.
Note to self: STATUS is a shitty constant name in a library.
I’m now able to pull the data and post as a webpage. My task tonight is figuring out how to do the same thing as a data dump. Ideally CSV style so I can log for a walk around the block and then dump into a data visualizer of some kind. I’m guessing I’m looking for a period of about 1-3 seconds, obviously up and down on the Z axis, but maybe a little something on the Y. Then, if I’m all hardcore, which I am, I’d love to add a little bit more back end on identifying the motion type.
I feel confident I should get some data going this week.
HUMPDAY!
Peter's stuff.