Acceleration is a fancy word for how fast something speeds up or slows down.
If you go from standing still to running, you’ve accelerated.
If a car brakes quickly — that’s acceleration too (but in reverse!).
The Micro:bit has a built-in accelerometer. That’s a sensor that can tell:
How fast it’s moving
If it’s shaking
If it’s being dropped
Today, we’re going to use that sensor to log how much movement the Micro:bit feels.
We’re going to make a program that logs acceleration every second.
You’ll shake or move your Micro:bit, and it will record how strong the movement is.
At the end, you’ll be able to see when big shakes happened — just like a black box in a car or a motion sensor in a fitness tracker.
To get started create a new Microbit project.
Drag out the block:
🧱 set column (acceleration)
Place it inside the on start block
This will make it easier to read your data.
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