Abstract—(MEMS) Microelectromechanical systemsin consumer electronics are growing faster each year, with increasing demands from the mobile market, which is dominating the growth for this emerging ...

[Boris Landoni] put together a guide to using an inexpensive 3-axis accelerometer with Arduino. The chip that he chose for the exercise is an MMA7455L made by Freescale. It’s got a lot of nice ...

A question: if you’re controlling the classic video game Street Fighter with gestures, aren’t you just, you know, street fighting? That’s a question [Charlie Gerard] is going to have to tackle should ...

Instructables user benhur.goncalves has published a new project that provides details on how to create your very own DIY Arduino watch that is equipped with a number of useful features that include ...

With the SensorShield-EVK-003, ROHM is offering a new sensor shield equipped with eight sensor boards designed for use with existing open platform MCU boards such as Arduino and mbed. The SensorShield ...

TDK Tronics adds two digital MEMS accelerometers to its AXO300 series providing high linearity and stability, even in high vibration environments. The AXO301 is a low ...

Arduino, the open-source hardware, software and content platform, has collaborated with Chinese DIY electronics company, Seeed to create the Arduino Sensor Kit. The kit brings Seeed’s Grove sensors to ...

Kistler announced the availability of its three-component force sensors and piezoelectric accelerometers to meet the rigorous demands of satellite and spacecraft force limited vibration testing (FLV).

Accelerometers are used in vehicles for applications such as airbag deployment, electronic stability control (ESC), and tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS). Airbag systems incorporate ...