A spring vibration sensor is a simple device that can be used as a poor man’s accelerometer, or simply to detect vibration. All you need is a length of conductive wire, a 10 kΩ resistor, and a ...

When [Robot Cantina] isn’t busy tweaking the 420cc Big Block engine in their Honda Insight, they’re probably working on some other completely far out automotive atrocity. In the video b… ...

The AXO301 and AXO305 MEMS accelerometers are sampling now. Also available is an AXO Arduino-based evaluation kit that provides built-in testing functions, such as output reading and recording, ...

The microcontroller-based concept was chosen because I wanted to scale the sensor system later to suit other applications. Here is the diagram of my Arduino infrared close proximity sensor. As you can ...

Nicer models may have different vibration patterns, but if you really want to experiment—and try out your programming chops—you can create your own vibration patterns with an Arduino.