Nearable Gyroscope Confusion

[phagmann]

Hello, I have been playing with the stickers and have read that the Nearables do have Gyroscopes. However, I have also read that rotating the stickers a certain way will change the values of the xyz accelerometer readings. I would love some clarification on this topic because both can't be true.

[heypiotr]

Estimote Stickers don't have gyro—is this something you've read in our resources, or some 3rd party ones?

The accelerometer in stickers is just a regular 3-axis accelerometer. Not exactly sure what you have in mind with "rotating the stickers a certain way will change the values of the xyz accelerometer readings". There will be a change in acceleration while you're rotating the sticker, and also if you change the sticker's orientation, you'll observe the Earth's gravity/acceleration reflected on a different axis, but all of that is simply reflecting the changes in acceleration as measured by the accelerometer.

[phagmann]

Thanks heypiotr,

I saw talk about gyroscopes on the Estimote forums and just assumed it came with the Stickers. Having Gryoscope would have played a big role in my app. I thought the stickers being able to tell which way is up, down, left, or right was included but I failed to do my research. I might now a workaround on this limitation though.