Last fall, I grabbed a robot arm from Robot Geeks when they were on sale at Thanksgiving. The arm uses servos to rotate the base and move the joints and gripper. These work well enough but I found one ...

[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 ...

Kionix KXTJ3 is a drop-in replacement for the earlier 2 x 2 x 0.9mm KXTJ2 (Kionix’s best selling accelerometer), with from better noise performance to extended range. Toys, wearables, remote controls, ...

Accelerometers are devices that measure static or dynamic acceleration. There are many applications which require the need of this device. One important application of an accelerometer is in an ...