G-Force Radar Meter | Generated by AI
This is a G-force meter / accelerometer gadget — a small handheld device that measures and displays acceleration forces.
Reading the orange LCD:
- Circular radar plot (left) — a 2D scatter/crosshair showing G-force direction on X/Y axes, scaled
-2 ... -1 ... 1 ... 2(i.e. ±2G range). The center dot marks current/resting position. - MAX GFORCE — the peak acceleration recorded.
- 0.51 — the max G-force value measured (0.51G).
- → AA — directional/axis indicator (likely the dominant axis or a label).
The hardware: it’s mounted on a breadboard/dev board with a USB-C port and a blue side button — almost certainly a hobbyist/DIY build using an MPU-6050 / ADXL345-class IMU + a microcontroller (looks like a small dev board, possibly something like a Seeed XIAO, RP2040, or similar) driving a monochrome LCD. The orange backlight is a classic STN/segment-style LCD.
These are popular as:
- Car/motorsport telemetry toys (measure cornering, braking, launch G’s)
- Maker projects for learning IMU sensor fusion
- EDC fidget gadgets in the hobbyist electronics scene
If you want, I can sketch the minimal firmware to build one — read an MPU-6050 over I²C, compute the resultant G vector, track max magnitude, and render the radar plot. It’s ~80 lines of MicroPython or Arduino C. Want it?