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Nunchuk or ADXL345 accelerometer

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:43 am
by Syntex
Hello,

After a Quadcopter based on KKboard, i have decided to build my first Wiicopter.
I bought a Paris V2 board here: http://www.multiwiicopter.com, and i receveid it just in 8 days!

I want to build a Quad with stable mode, now i have to made a choice:
use a Nunchuk from Nintendo or use an accelerometer ADXL345 from Sparkfun.

I found differents informations concerning connection to the board but i didn't really find information concerning the flight quality that i can expected.

Could you give your feeling about this different kind of accelerometer?

Thanks
Arnaud

Re: Nunchuk or ADXL345 accelerometer

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:57 am
by Alexinparis
Hi,
If you want to buy a good accelerometer, I advise the BMA180 instead.
It's much less noisy than the ADXL345.

The nunchuks are not so bad, but the cycle time is important with it.

Re: Nunchuk or ADXL345 accelerometer

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:28 am
by Amigorodrigo
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10121

...this one with a bma180 instead of the adxl345 would be awesome!
the size is unbeatable.

which acc is in the original nunchuck?

would it be correct to order them by performance like this:
nunchuck-acc < adxl345 < bma020 < bma180

Re: Nunchuk or ADXL345 accelerometer

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:55 pm
by Syntex
hi,

Thans Alex for your answer.
The price of an ADX345 and and BMA180 is similar, if the second is better i will use a BMA180.

Do you have a specific soft version to use this kind of accelerometeur?

Thanks in advance.
Arnaud

Re: Nunchuk or ADXL345 accelerometer

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:41 pm
by Alexinparis
The 1.6 is ok with BMA180, as this ACC is one of the part of FFIMU from Jussi.
I'm not sure about the breakout board orientation, but it's not a real problem to determine it.

Re: Nunchuk or ADXL345 accelerometer

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:42 pm
by Syntex
for the breakout board orientation i find a good document here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost ... count=6592