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Reusing Gyroscope - salvaged from old camera

enessoylutr

Hello, I am new in the community. Hope this is the right place for this question. I disassembled a camera and in one of the circuits there are two accelometers perpendicular to each other. I just want to learn how can I read and understand data from it. But I couldn't understand the circuitry. Could someone give me some pointers in that? I only have a multimeter as a testing device, by the way. Please find attached image.image

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    Hi Enes,

     

    With any part, you need to examine the datasheet, it will describe what you're requesting.

    You need to find the datasheet for the part (e.g. via google. Or if you somehow have the circuit diagram for your camera with the part labelled).

    Unless you find the datasheet, I don't think you can do much except probe it with the power applied to the camera and see what you see. That's 'reverse engineering. That would ideally require an oscilloscope, or a logic analyzer (logic analyzers are inexpensive but there is a learning curve), and not a multimeter.

     

    For a simpler way, Adafruit (and others) sell accelerometers on easy-to-use 'breakout' boards, for $5 USD. There are tutorials for them online (usually they require a microcontroller and some programming, for instance see 'Arduino') since they have a serial digital output stream. There are some accelerometers which have an output voltage and require no microcontroller or programming, but they are likely to be rare, and more expensive these days. Analog Devices is a manufacturer that had analog output versions.

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    Hi Enes,

     

    With any part, you need to examine the datasheet, it will describe what you're requesting.

    You need to find the datasheet for the part (e.g. via google. Or if you somehow have the circuit diagram for your camera with the part labelled).

    Unless you find the datasheet, I don't think you can do much except probe it with the power applied to the camera and see what you see. That's 'reverse engineering. That would ideally require an oscilloscope, or a logic analyzer (logic analyzers are inexpensive but there is a learning curve), and not a multimeter.

     

    For a simpler way, Adafruit (and others) sell accelerometers on easy-to-use 'breakout' boards, for $5 USD. There are tutorials for them online (usually they require a microcontroller and some programming, for instance see 'Arduino') since they have a serial digital output stream. There are some accelerometers which have an output voltage and require no microcontroller or programming, but they are likely to be rare, and more expensive these days. Analog Devices is a manufacturer that had analog output versions.

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