The advent of small, low-g IC accelerometers is stimulating new applications as diverse as security systems and sports and health monitors. The ability to use human movement and gesture as inputs to ...

This week we’ll cover TDK capacitors with flex crack countermeasures, Omron optical sensors, and an STMicro 3-axis linear accelerometer. Omron’s photomicrosensors are emitter/detector pairs in a ...

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 ...