[Boris Landoni] put together a guide to using an inexpensive 3-axis accelerometer with Arduino. The chip that he chose for the exercise is an MMA7455L made by Freescale. It’s got a lot of nice ...

The controller consists of a battery-powered Arduino MKR1000 with WiFi and an MPU6050 accelerometer. Held in the hand, the controller streams accelerometer data to an external PC, capturing the ...

Reasonably priced add-on sensor modules are now widely available ... There lots of good resources out there in the web for accelerometers and the Arduino. Here is a simple primer that I have found ...