The accelerometer is a hardware sensor used to detect a shake motion. William Francis shares the accelerometer code that he uses in his Android apps.

A piezoelectric accelerometer is a device that measures the vibration — or small reciprocating accelerations — of a structure. Learn when and where to use these highly specialized ...

The tutorial combines a Teensy USB development board with a 3D accelerometer inside of an SNES controller. The Teensy is programmed to poll the SNES controller buttons and read the accelerometer ...

Intel® System Studio for Microcontrollers includes multiple samples to help you get up to speed with its basic functionality and become familiar with the Intel® Quark™ Microcontroller Software ...

The accelerometer sample uses the on-board Bosch BMC160 accelerometer connected to the microcontroller using the I2C interface, and the RTC (real time clock) integrated in the Intel® Quark ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT have developed a proof of concept to demonstrate that it is possible to record a computer user's keystrokes using an iPhone 4's accelerometer. The researchers ...

How to Easily Locate the Accelerometer in an iPhone Don't take apart your phone! Circular motion, an app to record sensor data, and some physics is all you need.

UPDATE 12/5/2008: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that STMicroelectronics was being challenged as a supplier of accelerometers to Nintendo. At the heart of the success of the ...