{"id":9150,"date":"2014-03-31T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:18:37","slug":"how-to-use-the-mma7455-accelerometer-with-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9150","title":{"rendered":"How to use the MMA7455 accelerometer with the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tandyonline.co.uk\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/m\/m\/mma7455-accelerometer.png?resize=560%2C560\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zach Igielman, a long-time CamJammer, has just started to do video tutorials. His first one is all about using an accelerometer with the Pi and he&#8217;s chosen to use the MMA7455 which is fairly easy and cheap to get hold of from eBay or from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandyonline.co.uk\/mma7455-accelerometer-module.html\">Tandy Online<\/a> if you&#8217;d rather not. It&#8217;s especially good for his first video and he explains things with a clear voice and plenty of detail &#8211; he&#8217;s clearly spent a good deal of time planning out what he wants to say and has chosen a very interesting subject. So, if you want to get into using this sensor, give his video a watch and you&#8217;ll be up-and-running in no time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m not going to embed it here, but instead I&#8217;ll give a link to it so you can leave a comment and a thumbs-up if you wish \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OYXXvaypUKQ\">Watch the video here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Igielman, a long-time CamJammer, has just started to do video tutorials. His first one is all about using an accelerometer with the Pi and he&#8217;s chosen to use the MMA7455 which is fairly easy and cheap to get hold&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9150\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[39,51,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-tutorials","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to use the MMA7455 accelerometer with the #RaspberryPi - 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=9150\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to use the MMA7455 accelerometer with the #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zach Igielman, a long-time CamJammer, has just started to do video tutorials. 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