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Issues with ADXL345 MEMS Accelerometer

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11mo ago· 8 min readenNews

Summary

The article discusses issues with the ADXL345 MEMS accelerometer, highlighting significant offsets, malfunctioning measurement axes, and a non-functional freefall detection mode. A reader encountered these problems and sought assistance to diagnose the faulty devices.

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one of my readers ended up with a bunch of ADXL345s that had significant offsets, measurement axes that didn’t work at all, and an inoperative freefall detection mode.
After spending lots of time trying to get them to work, he decided to send them to me instead and hopefully find out what was wrong with them.
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The ADXL345 is a MEMS accelerometer made by Analog Devices. It’s a popular device among hobbyists because of its low cost, easy availability and rich feature set. But apparently you should be careful about where you buy them: one of my readers ended up wi

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