BASE jumping with accelerometers

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BASE jumping with accelerometers

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Michael Cooper sent these amazing photos and data plots to SparkFun…he wrote his own firmware for the WiTilt, which gives 250 Hz of accelerometer data with 16x oversampling. The data is sent via Bluetooth to his Palm Tungsten which takes care of logging.

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