I plan on using my mbed to capture some raw acceleration data from a rocket that I plan to launch soon. What I have build is a little program that records data from an accelerometer. When you flip the switch, the program automatically starts recording all x,y, and z values to a cvs file which can later be opened in excel to produce a graph. I have also added a mobile lcd screen to output the results.

Dependencies:   mbed

Revision:
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+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "MobileLCD.h"
+
+AnalogIn x1(p18);
+AnalogIn y1(p19);
+AnalogIn z1(p20);
+DigitalOut led(LED1);
+
+DigitalIn start(p21);
+Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX); // tx, rx
+LocalFileSystem local("local");               // Create the local filesystem under the name "local"
+
+MobileLCD lcd(p5, p6, p7, p8, p9);
+
+int count=0;
+
+int main() {
+    lcd.background(0x0000FF);
+    lcd.cls();
+
+
+    lcd.printf("Waiting for start...");
+    for (int i=0; i<130; i++) {
+        lcd.pixel(i, 80 + sin((float)i / 5.0)*10, 0x000000);
+    }
+    while (1) {
+
+        pc.printf("%d",start.read());
+        if (start) {
+            remove("/local/out.csv");
+            FILE *fp = fopen("/local/out.csv", "w");  // Open "out.txt" on the local file system for writing
+            lcd.background(0x0000FF);
+            lcd.cls();
+            while (start) {
+
+                pc.printf("XValue %.4f , YValue %.4f , ZValue %.4f\n",x1.read(),y1.read(),z1.read());
+                fprintf(fp," %f , %f , %f\n",x1.read(),y1.read(),z1.read());
+
+                lcd.locate(0,3);
+                lcd.printf("X:");
+                lcd.locate(0,6);
+                lcd.printf("Y:");
+                lcd.locate(0,8);
+                lcd.printf("Z:");
+                lcd.pixel(count++, -10 +x1.read()*100, 0x000000);
+                lcd.pixel(count, 10+x1.read()*100, 0x000000);
+                lcd.pixel(count,30+x1.read()*100, 0x000000);
+                if (count == 120 ) {
+                    count = 0;
+                    lcd.cls();
+                }
+
+            }
+            fclose(fp);
+        }
+
+
+
+
+    }
+}
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