{"id":11601,"date":"2014-12-12T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:05:02","slug":"interface-a-gyro-and-accelerometer-with-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11601","title":{"rendered":"Interface a gyro and accelerometer with a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ozzmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BerryIMUWire.png?resize=560%2C404\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Williams is currently running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2135028730\/berryimu-orientation-sensor-for-the-raspberry-pi\" target=\"_blank\">a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi<\/a>. It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2135028730\/berryimu-orientation-sensor-for-the-raspberry-pi\" target=\"_blank\">BerryIMU<\/a> (which stands for Inertial Measurement Unit). He&#8217;s been writing a series of great articles to support the project. His latest article is all about using a gyro and accelerometer to get readings about attitude and movement. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/ozzmaker.com\/2014\/12\/11\/berryimu\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It&#8217;s called the BerryIMU (which stands for Inertial Measurement Unit). He&#8217;s been writing a series of great articles to support the project.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11601\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,13,50,62,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-crowdfunding","category-making","category-sensors","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interface a gyro and accelerometer with a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11601\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interface a gyro and accelerometer with a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. 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