By Michael Stanley – No, the title does not refer to the forces of good versus those of evil. Nor am I referring to my stance when chopping firewood with an axe. Instead, let’s see if we can straighten out some of the terminology that you’ll hear when people start to talk about sensors. Even [...]
By Michael Stanley – Last week, Freescale made its eCompass and 4 and 7 element magnetic compensation routines available in (drum roll please!) source form. Getting access is easy. Let me take you through the steps…. Open your web browser to http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=eCompass Click on the “ECOMPASS_SW: eCompass Software” link. This will take you to the [...]
By Michael Stanley – I admit I was tickled to see the Freescale MPL3115A2 win the embedded AWARD 2012 (in the hardware category) at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany. I’ve blogged on this sensor before (Xtrinsic Pressure Sensor/Altimeter Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). This is the device that can either operate as [...]
January 31, 2012 – 8:18 am
By Michael Stanley – My last post looked at a number of innovative robots shown at CES 2012. In this post, I would like to touch on three sensor technologies that caught my eye. The first is a two dimensional, real-time force imaging system by UCCTW marketed under the “Uneo” trademark. The image above reflects the [...]
January 21, 2012 – 11:41 am
By Michael Stanley — Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Freescale maintained a booth in the MEMS Tech Zone sponsored by the MEMS Industry Group (MIG), and I was on hand for much of the show. When I wasn’t actually manning the Freescale booth, I was [...]
December 14, 2011 – 9:50 am
By Michael Stanley — My previous posts in this series described the Freescale MPL3115A2 Xtrinsic pressure sensor / altimeter (see Part 1 and Part 2). This post shows that device in action. Two of my colleagues, Paul Gan and John Young, decided to have a bit of fun. They grabbed a laptop loaded with Freescale’s Sensor [...]
December 1, 2011 – 10:33 am
By Michael Stanley — A big part of my job involves keeping up to date with new sensor technologies and sensor fusion algorithms and techniques. For confidentiality reasons, I can’t often talk about the things I see from third-party suppliers and customers. But an amazing amount of stuff is routinely published in public forums. One [...]
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