Reading Accelerometer Data with Microcontroller

Reading Accelerometer with microcontroller can bring your project to life after reading this post you will be able to interface your accelerometer easily with microcontrollers.

After reading a bit about accelerometer  and accelerometer pins you are good to go with accelerometer interfacing with your microcontroller I have interfaced accelerometer with my Atmega 8535 microcontroller (it is easy to use because its having built in ADC).

According to me the easiest way to know any sensor is transmit its data to hyper terminal via COM port and then analyze data in real-time. So as soon as I got accelerometer I wrote a piece of code to transmit the data serially and started analyzing them on my PC.

Here is the code which I wrote in AVR-BASCOM

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$regfile = "m8535.dat"                                      ' specify the used micro

$crystal = 16000000                                         ' used crystal frequency

$baud = 9600                                                ' use baud rate

Dim X As Integer , Y As Integer , Z As Integer

Dim Channel As Word

Config Adc = Single, Prescaler = Auto

Ddra.0 = 1

Porta.0 = 1                                                 'pin 1 in output mode high(vcc)

Ddra.1 = 1                                                  'pin 2 in op mode low(gnd)

Porta.1 = 0

Ddra.2 = 0

Porta.2 = 1                                                 'x axis adc ip mode

Ddra.3 = 0

Porta.3 = 1                                                 'y axis adc ip mode

Ddra.4 = 0

Porta.4 = 1                                                 'z axis in ip mode

Ddra.5 = 1

Porta.5 = 0                                                 'g select pin op high

Ddra.6 = 1                                                  'self test pin op low

Porta.6 = 0

Do

X = Getadc(3)                                  'read x axis

Y = Getadc(4)                                   'read y axis

Z = Getadc(5)                                   'read z axis

Waitms 100

Print " X " ; Getadc(3) ; " Y " ; Getadc(4) ; " Z " ; Getadc(5) ;  'display on COM port

Print

Loop

End
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 And finally what i got is this 

Accelerometer interfacing with microcontroller

and then you are ready to see instant data on your hyper terminal.
So you can analyze your movement or just create a look-up table for further references. 
or manually decide what values you want to use for application.
 
                  Guys keep waiting for further posts  what are about how to utilize this accelerometer data to control any game like NFS Most wanted or Counter strike with just a tilt of hand or to make your own WII like gaming console.