- Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:39 am
#180625
I am using the ITG-3200 Sparkfun Gyro and am wanting to obtain the rotation of the wheel. I plan on placing the gyro in the center of the rim, and obtaining the z-axis reading. However, I am not sure how to do this exactly, or if this is the best way to do so. It is going to be placed on a racing quad so the rpm's will be rather high. I am then going to use the rpm's to calculate the wheel horsepower and torque and log it to an sd card. I am just not sure how to go about reading the z-axis and converting that reading into actual rpm's. Can someone please help me with some basic code. I am new to electronics, but not programming. I know several programming languages, HTML/CSS, Visual Basic 6, VB.NET, C++, C#. I know logically what to do, I just don't know a lot about sensors. Thank you all in advance for the help.