Accelerometer demo

About Accelerometer demo Android App

The Accelerometer demo app for the BBC micro:bit is used to read accelerometer data from the the BBC micro:bit and display this data as graphs in the mobile app. The data is sent from the BBC micro:bit to the mobile phone via Bluetooth.

The app can easily be modified and used as a starting point to develop other apps using the Accelerometer and Bluetooth capabilities of the BBC micro:bit. Read more below how to use the app and how to modify the app.


How to use the accelerometer demo app

Follow these simple steps to use the demo app
1. First make sure your micro:bit is paired with your Android device. Use the official BBC micro:bit app to do the pairing.
2. Download, install and run the Accelerometer demo app on your Android device
3. Start scanning for the micro:bit by pressing the ”Start button”.
4. If everything works, the app should automatically detect the micro:bit and start plotting the accelerometer data.


How to modify the accelerometer demo app

The Accelerometer demo app can easily be modified and used as a starting point to develop other apps using the Accelerometer or Bluetooth communication features in the BBC micro:bit. Coding is done with web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. With a tad bit of knowledge in web technologies, it is easy to get started, follow these steps:

1. Download the latest version of Evothings Studio. This is a tool that enables mobile apps to be developed with web technologies:
https://evothings.com/download/

2. Follow the instructions in this article to run and modify the Accelerometer app in Evothings Studio: https://evothings.com/doc/examples/microbit-accelerometer.html

More examples and tutorials for the BBC micro:bit can be found here:
https://evothings.com/evothings-and-the-bbc-microbit/