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•I2C-controlled• Works with both Raspberry Pi & Arduino• Great basic barometric pressure sensor at 1.5h Pa / 50m altitude resolution•500-1150 h Pa (up to 10km altitude)• Fully tested & assembled breakout board• All headers included (to solder yourself) This pressure sensor from Freescale is a great low-cost sensing solution for measuring barometric pressure. At 1.5 h Pa resolution it's great for basic barometric pressure sensing. The sensor is soldered onto a PCB with 10K pull-up resistors on the I2C pins. This chip is good for use with power & logic voltages ranging from 2.4V to 5.5V so you can use it with your 3V or 5V microcontroller. There's a basic temperature sensor inside but there's no specifications in the datasheet so we're not sure how accurate it is. Using the sensor is easy. For example, if you're using an Arduino, simply connect the VDD pin to the 5V voltage pin, GND to ground, SCL to I2C Clock (Analog 5 on an UNO) & SDA to I2C Data (Analog 4 on an UNO). Then download Adafruit's MPL115A2 Arduino library & example code for temperature, pressure & basic altitude calculation. Install the library, & load the example sketch. Immediately you'll have the temperature, pressure & altitude data printed in the serial console. The MPL3115A2 has a typical 1.5 Pascal resolution, which can resolve altitude at 0.3 meters (compare to the BMP180 which can do 0.17m). It has some upsides compared to the BMP180, such as interrupt outputs for ultra-low power usage, & its also a heck of a lot easier to read altitude with a built in altimeter calculation
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Includes: 5-pin header to attach easily to a breadboard• Uses the INA169 chip, click here for datasheet This breakout board will solve all your current-monitoring problems. Instead of struggling with a multimeter, you can just use the handy INA169 chip on this breakout to both measure both the DC current draw & have a handy analogue output that is with respect to ground. The analogue output makes this an ideal breakout for feedback-loop control. Most current-measuring devices such as our current panel meter are only good for low side measuring. That means that unless you want to get a battery involved, you have to stick the measurement resistor between the target ground & true ground. This can cause problems with circuits since electronics tend to not like it when the ground references change & move with varying current draw. This chip is much smarter
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Adafruit L3GD20 (L3G4200 Upgrade) Triple-Axis Gyro Breakout Board

•Sense twisting and turning motions•Three full axes of sensing•The chip can be set to ±250, ±500, or ±2000 degree-per-second scale for a large range of sensitivity•Supports both I2C and SPI•3.3V max device, but onboard level shifting allows a 5V interfaceA gyroscope is a type of sensor that can sense twisting and turning motions. Often paired with an accelerometer, you can use these to do 3D motion capture and inertial measurement (that is - you can tell how an object is moving!) As these sensors become more popular and easier to manufacture, the prices for them have dropped to the point where you can easily afford a triple-axis gyro! Only a decade ago, this space-tech sensor would have been hundreds of dollars. This breakout board is based around the latest gyro
technology, the L3GD20 from STMicro. It's the upgrade to the L3G4200 (see this app note on what to look for if upgrading an existing design to the L3GD20 - (http://www.st.com/internet/analog/product/252443.jsp) with three full axes of sensing. The chip can be set to ±250, ±500, or ±2000 degree-per-second scale for a large range of sensitivity. There's also built in high and low pass sensing to make data processing easier. The chip supports both I2C and SPI so you can interface with any microcontroller easily. Since this chip is a 3.3V max device, but many of our customers want to use it with an Arduino, Adafruit soldered it to a breakout board with level shifting circuitry so you can use the I2C or SPI interface safely using a 5V interface device. They also placed a 3.3V regulator
on there so you can power it from 5V. Since we expect people will want to attach it firmly to their project, the PCB comes with four 2.1mm mounting holes. Use 2-56 imperial or M2 screws screws. Getting started is easy - simply connect SDA to your Arduino I2C data pin (On the UNO this is A4), SCL to I2C clock (Uno: A5), GND to ground, and Vin to 3 or 5VDC. Then install and run Adafruits easy to use Arduino library, which will print out the XYZ sensor data to the serial terminal, click here for the library. Their library also supports SPI on any 4 digital I/O pins, see the example for wiring.
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• Sense twisting & turning motions• Three full axes of sensing• The chip can be set to ±250, ±500, or ±2000 degree-per-second scale for a large range of sensitivity• Supports both I2C & SPI•3.3V max device, but onboard level shifting allows a 5V interface A gyroscope is a type of sensor that can sense twisting & turning motions. Often paired with an accelerometer, you can use these to do 3D motion capture & inertial measurement (that is
- you can tell how an object is moving!) As these sensors become more popular & easier to manufacture, the prices for them have dropped to the point where you can easily afford a triple-axis gyro! Only a decade ago, this space-tech sensor would have been hundreds of dollars. This breakout board is based around the latest gyro technology, the L3GD20 from STMicro. It's the upgrade to the L3G4200 (see this app note on what to look for if upgrading an existing design to the L3GD20
- (http://www.st.com/internet/analog/product/252443.jsp) with three full axes of sensing. The chip can be set to ±250, ±500, or ±2000 degree-per-second scale for a large range of sensitivity. There's also built in high & low pass sensing to make data processing easier. The chip supports both I2C & SPI so you can interface with any microcontroller easily. Since this chip is a 3.3V max device, but many of our customers want to use it with an Arduino, Adafruit soldered it to a breakout board with level shifting circuitry so you can use the I2C or SPI interface safely using a 5V interface device. They also placed a 3.3V regulator on there so you can power it from 5V. Since we expect people will want to attach it firmly to their project, the PCB comes with four 2.1mm mounting holes. Use 2-56 imperial or M2 screws screws. Getting started is easy
- simply connect SDA to your Arduino I2C data pin (On the UNO this is A4), SCL to I2C clock (Uno: A5), GND to ground, & Vin to 3 or 5VDC. Then install & run Adafruits easy to use Arduino library, which will print out the XYZ sensor data to the serial terminal, click here for the library. Their library also supports SPI on any 4 digital I/O pins, see the example for wiring.

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