Category: Sensor

Advanced Photonix Red Enhanced Silicon Photodiodes
Advanced Photonix Red Enhanced Silicon Photodiodes offer a variety of features and packages for numerous applications. The SD113-24-21-021 is a RED enhanced Bi-Cell silicon photodiode with a gap of 100µm. It is ideal for accurate nulling, centering, or measuring small positional...
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Piezo Element Amplifier for Guitar and Violin
The board presented here is a preamplifier for contact microphones that are used for amplifying the sound of musical instruments which do not contain electrical pickups, such as guitar and violins. Most contact microphones use a piezo element to convert vibration in the body of the...
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C12880MA Breakout Board with Hamamatsu C12880 MEMS µ-Spectrometer
GroupGets' MEMS micro-spectrometer offers a spectral response of 340 nm to 850 nm and 15 nm of resolution with an Arduino compatible breakout board GroupGets' C12880MA breakout board is a simple Arduino compatible breakout board for the Hamamatsu C12880MA MEMs micro-spectrometer....
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Allegro MicroSystems ACS72981 Linear Hall-Effect Current Sensor ICs
Allegro MicroSystems ACS72981 High-Precision Linear Hall-Effect-Based Current Sensor ICs are economical and precise AC or DC sensing solutions. The ACS72981 features a 250kHz bandwidth ideal for motor control, load detection and management, power supply and DC-to-DC converter control,...
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Flusso boasts smallest air velocity sensor
Flusso claims the FLS122 is the industry’s smallest air velocity sensor, measuring 3.5 × 3.5 mm, targeting space-constrained applications. Flusso Ltd. has claimed the industry’s smallest air velocity sensor with the introduction of the FLS122, housed in a 3.5 × 3.5-mm footprint....
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SparkFun Analog MEMS Microphone Breakout for remote IoT applications
SparkFun has announced an Analog MEMS Microphone Breakout board built around the famous SPH8878LR5H-1 analog microphone. A MEMS microphone is an electro-acoustic transducer housing a sensor (MEMS) and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in a single package. The board...
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MEMS accelerometer is aimed at healthcare, industrial applications
Analog Devices Inc. has launched ADXL367 three-axis MEMS accelerometer intended for applications such as vital signs monitoring, hearing aids, and motion-enabled metering devices. The accelerometer lowers power consumption by a factor of two compared a previous generation of the device...
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NJL5830R – Optical Touchless Sensor to control a switch without physical contact
Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. has introduced a new reflective type optical sensor NJL5830R that contains a high-power infrared LED, a photodiode sensor, and a signal processing IC in a unique package and has a high resistance to ambient light to prevent operation interference and can...
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