Accellerometer spin

[Ortwin Regel]

The problem is the same as with linear acceleration: You get an
increasing deviation over time.

Ortwin

On 5/18/08, recursv at gmail.com <recursv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead of adding a compass to the device to be able to read spin about the
> gravitational axis, would it not be easier to offset one of the
> accellerometers from the centre of the device?
>
> That way, the roll is uneffected and the yaw and pitch can be calculated by
> accounting for the known offset in the equ.
>
> Just a thought
> Sent from my BlackBerry(R) wireless handheld