An accelerometer measures the acceleration of your phone. It does that on three axes: horizontal, vertical, and forward/backward. It also senses vibration, tilt, and free fall. Being able to calculate ...

Hackaday alum [Adam Munich] shot a tutorial video on using a rate gyroscope. Here he’s showing off the really fancy piece of ancient (technologically speaking) hardware. It would have set you ...

Santa Clara, California-based Anello Photonics and Montreal-based One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP)—have introduced new ...

Grab the kids and give this paper gyroscope a try. It’s not an electronic sensor made of paper, but the modern equivalent of a spinning top. The frame remains stationary while the center ...