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Speaker 1: it going? Welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Polette,

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Sit Here across from me, as usual,

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Speaker 1: is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Slow down, you move too fast.

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Speaker 1: You got to make the morning last Uh. Are you

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Speaker 1: feeling groovy, Chris? I am? You know what else is groovy?

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Speaker 1: What's that? Accelerometers? I like how you bridged that there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that. That was a really good segue. That's

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Speaker 1: that's the tom Merritt segue where you get me mad

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Speaker 1: by pointing out my segue. Oh nice, Yeah, tom Merritt

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Speaker 1: always hated that, which is awesome, which why you always

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Speaker 1: do it whenever soon anyway, So tom Merritt decide we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about accelerometers to day. And accelerometers are in

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Speaker 1: a lot of different products, um particularly a lot of

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Speaker 1: handheld mobile gadgets, as it turns out, because they provide

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Speaker 1: a handy guide to things like orientation and also just

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Speaker 1: movement in general. So to understand what an accelerometer is,

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Speaker 1: I guess we need to talk about what acceleration is. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we can do that, Okay, Yeah, I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: point out that we were going to make a return

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Speaker 1: to our electronics one oh one. Yes, yes, a long

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Speaker 1: return to electronics one oh one. This time we're talking

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Speaker 1: specifically about accelerometers. And it's funny because, uh, um, on

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Speaker 1: our first few podcasts on this in the series, we

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Speaker 1: actually sort of went into a lot of different components. Um,

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Speaker 1: It's probably electronics to a one with the Arduino board. Um.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a component that you could actually

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Speaker 1: hook up to them. They're not particularly expensive components, and

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Speaker 1: they're found in all kinds of things, as you pointed out,

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Speaker 1: including a lot of things you wouldn't necessarily think of, um, laptops, laptops. Yes,

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Speaker 1: um yeah. I remember being uh sort of astounded when

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Speaker 1: wonder what that is. Of course, now they're almost in everything,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of hard to avoid accelerometers. But I

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Speaker 1: think I think you're right. I think acceleration would be

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Speaker 1: a good, um, good place to start. So acceleration is

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Speaker 1: the time rate of change in velocity? Yes, it is,

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Speaker 1: and uh and you you might say, well, what what

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Speaker 1: was that was? Velocity? Velocity is two things. It's a

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Speaker 1: back to my physics senior physics class in high school. So,

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Speaker 1: so acceleration is the time rate of change in that

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Speaker 1: And you measure it by saying it's a distance over

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Speaker 1: So for example gravity, gravity's force of acceleration is at

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Speaker 1: eight one per second per second. So yes, are you

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Speaker 1: using the just curious are using the same texas instruments?

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Speaker 1: Power point presentation that was one of my main sources. UM.

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Speaker 1: free and you can find it online. It's really you know,

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Speaker 1: and I trust Texas. It's a it's a PDF format

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Speaker 1: and it's clearly it was obviously a slide show, yes originally,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be skipping over that stuff. So accelerometers are

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Speaker 1: there's also another major division, which is analog versus digital.

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Speaker 1: The accelerometer can measure that change in capacitance and then

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Speaker 1: There's also the Hall effect accelerometers, which they detect motion

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Speaker 1: So that wraps up our discussion on capacitors, also accelerometers.

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