Hello, I’m not really sure how to start a post on here so I’ll start with saying that I’m pretty bad at coding and that I’m using VexV5 C++. From my understanding, the Inertial Sensor contains a Accelerometer, which are typically used to measure shaking and motion of things, I’m wondering if I can use a inertial sensor and a VexV5 brain to sort of make a weak mini seismograph?
I’m not even sure how to start this program, any tips or help are appreciated!
In the sense of the part I think that the accelerometer is for mesuring the distance that the robot goes. my team used it the past two years to use drivetrain. I did some reasearch and couldn’t find anything.
I may be wrong but i am pretty sure the accelerometer only mesures G forces and so yeah with a descent amoutn of math you probalby even make it output in the richter scale. For the actual graph part you coud use graphy but that is for pros for VexCode I couldnt find anityhing aside from this. I am not entirly sure but i think you could just get the IMU’s dating and output it on the screen and then just multiply the valvues by something until you see an acutaly noticible change on the screen or in the numbers. That being said the vex IMU are decently noisy and You may have to some wierd signall processing stuff with two IMU’s to remove the noise. You also could physically amplify the signal by putting it onto some kind of floppy pole. Good luck on your project