accelerometer / gyro programming

[jgullickson]

I'm experimenting with writing some programs that use the accelerometer & gyro and I'm wondering if anyone here knows if there are "Unix-y" interfaces for these devices (/dev/something) or if they need to be accessed via some other mechanism like the SPI bus, etc.?

The programs I'm writing are in C but if you have an example in another language I might be able to translate.

Thank-you!


Jason