Maurizio Vannoni and Samuele Straulino 2007 Eur. J. Phys. 28 781 doi:10.1088/0143-0807/28/5/001
Maurizio Vannoni1 and Samuele Straulino2
Show affiliationsThe implementation of a modern game-console controller as a data acquisition interface for physics experiments is discussed. The investigated controller is equipped with three perpendicular accelerometers and a built-in infrared camera to evaluate its own relative position. A pendulum experiment is realized as a demonstration of the proposed approach.
06.30.Gv Velocity, acceleration, and rotation
Issue 5 (September 2007)
Received 23 April 2007, in final form 11 June 2007
Published 6 July 2007
Maurizio Vannoni and Samuele Straulino 2007 Eur. J. Phys. 28 781
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