In some cases, using an accelerometer as a tilt sensor provides a valuable function that can simplify system designs. Tilt sensing encompasses a wide variety of approaches, which vary in both ...

Another project had brought him in contact with some relatively cheap MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes. He had the idea to create a simple tilt sensor based circuit that would light whatever ...

sometimes you really don’t need a 6DOF gyro and accelerometer. Hell, if you only need to detect if an object is tilted, you can get a simple “ball in a tube” tilt sensor for pennies.

For example, smartphones rotate their display between portrait and landscape mode depending on how you tilt ... sensor. The piezoelectric effect is the most common form of accelerometer and ...

STMicroelectronics claims first IMU with dual MEMS accelerometer and embedded AI with impact detection up to 320 g.

ADI, of course, isn’t the only manufacturer of MEMS motion sensors. Freescale Semiconductor’s MMA745xL three-axis digital- output accelerometers for mobile devices support tilt scrolling in ...

Sensors are in use around the clock, even when you don't open apps that use them, and some sensors work together to provide better accuracy across the operating system. Most peopl ...

An accelerometer is the first piece of complex sensor technology in your smartphone ... vibrations, and tilt. With that information, your phone can tell how fast it's moving and which direction ...

The sensor that lets your phone know which way ... Unique imperfections: A micrograph of a MEMS accelerometer. In addition to governing basic things like screen orientation, accelerometer data ...

The feature uses the accelerometer and gyrometer to check the GPU tilt angle without user knowledge. It's always weird when an update magically "adds" a new sensor or feature to a piece of hardware.