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ADXL335 acceleration measurement range is +/- 3 g. Supply voltage is

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1.8 3.6 V, however all specifications at the datasheet is given at 3.0 V.

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This accelerometer has 3 outputs for X,Y,Z axis which voltage is

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proportional to acceleration on specific axis.

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At midpoint when acceleration is 0 g output is typically 1/2 of supply

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voltage. If a supply voltage is 3V, then output is 1.5 V. Output sensitivity

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typically is 300 mV/g.

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The connecting ADXL335 to Arduino board is simple. The accelerometer

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can be supplied from the 3.3 V output at Arduino board, however then
midpoint voltage and sensitivity is different from specified at datasheet. I
used 3.0 V supply voltage, it came from voltage regulator LM317.

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have 3.0 V output at LM317 before connecting ADXL335 board.

Connect the board and adjust again, because output voltage will drop
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This is how sensing axis are orientated to ADXL335 (images from

ADXL335 datasheet)

Readings from X,Y,Z axis reflects an orientation of an accelerometer.

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Interesting that if a direction of sensing axis match to gravity direction

measurement result is negative (-1 g).
Lets start with an Arduino program. This program not only sends
readings of acceleration from 3 axis via serial port, but also calculates
rotation of the accelerometer around X, Y, Z, axis.
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#define

#define

#define

#define

#define

#define

#define

ADC_ref 2.56
zero_x 1.569
zero_y 1.569
zero_z 1.569
sensitivity_x 0.3
sensitivity_y 0.3
sensitivity_z 0.3

ADC reference voltage is 2.56 V. Default on board 5V is not selected

because is slightly lower then 5.0 V and can be unstable. 0 g voltage
after some simple calibration is set to be 1.569 V. The sensitivity for
calculations is used as default 300 mV/g.
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void setup() {

analogReference(INTERNAL2V56);

Serial.begin(256000);

Setting the ADC reference to 2.56 V and starting serial communication.

void loop() {
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value_x = analogRead(0);
value_y = analogRead(1);
value_z = analogRead(2);

At the loop A/D conversions are performed for each of 3 channels.

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xv=(value_x/1024.0*ADC_ref-zero_x)/sensitivity_x;

The acceleration is calculated at this line.

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angle_z =atan2(-yv,-xv)*57.2957795+180;

The rotation(for Z axis) is calculated using atan2 function. It calculates

angle from length of X, Y vectors. *57.2957795 is conversation of
radian to degree. +180 is for offset.
Full code:
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// Simple angle meter using ADXL335 accelerometer

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#define ADC_ref 2.56

#define zero_x 1.569

#define zero_y 1.569

#define zero_z 1.569

#define sensitivity_x 0.3

#define sensitivity_y 0.3

#define sensitivity_z 0.3

unsigned int value_x;

unsigned int value_y;
unsigned int value_z;

float xv;
float yv;
float zv;

float angle_x;
float angle_y;
float angle_z;

void setup() {

analogReference(INTERNAL2V56);

Serial.begin(256000);

void loop() {

value_x = analogRead(0);
value_y = analogRead(1);
value_z = analogRead(2);

xv=(value_x/1024.0*ADC_ref-zero_x)/sensitivity_x;

Serial.print ("x= ");

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Serial.print (xv);
Serial.print(" g ");

yv=(value_y/1024.0*ADC_ref-zero_y)/sensitivity_y;

Serial.print ("y= ");

Serial.print (yv);
Serial.print(" g ");

zv=(value_z/1024.0*ADC_ref-zero_z)/sensitivity_z;

Serial.print ("z= ");

Serial.print (zv);
Serial.print(" g ");

Serial.print("\n");

Serial.print("Rotation ");

Serial.print("x= ");

angle_x =atan2(-yv,-zv)*57.2957795+180;

Serial.print(angle_x);
Serial.print(" deg");
Serial.print(" ");

Serial.print("y= ");

angle_y =atan2(-xv,-zv)*57.2957795+180;

Serial.print(angle_y);
Serial.print(" deg");
Serial.print(" ");

Serial.print("z= ");

angle_z =atan2(-yv,-xv)*57.2957795+180;

Serial.print(angle_z);
Serial.print(" deg");
Serial.print("\n");

delay(1000);
delay(1000);
}

And the demonstration of program in the video below.

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