[Thumbgps-devel] bikeshed - earthquake detector

tz thomas at mich.com
Sat May 12 12:08:47 EDT 2012


Sparkfun also has various accelerometers on breakoutboards (and others
including a board that has a gyro and compass too).

The Skytraq also has I2c (I was originally trying to use it to pull J1850
data instead of my latest solution)

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Andrew McGregor <andrewmcgr at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dave suggested using it as an el-cheapo seismograph in areas with poor
> coverage (which doesn't describe here, but apparently does describe a lot
> of central America).
>
> On 12/05/2012, at 10:14 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>:
> >> http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10953
> >>
> >> The ublox has an i2c on it (at least some do). This has 12 bit
> >> resolution, 2g,4g,and 8g range. 3mm wide...
> >
> > That is *cool*.  I hasd no idea these were available so small and cheap.
> > What were you thinking about using it for?
> > --
> >               <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
>
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