DESCRIPTION
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The LSM9DS1 is a versatile, motion-sensing system-in-a-chip. It houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer for nine degrees of freedom (9DOF) on a single IC! The LSM9DS1 is equipped with a digital interface, but even that is flexible: it supports both I2C and SPI, so you’ll be hard-pressed to find a microcontroller it doesn’t work with.
The LSM9DS1 is one of only a handful of ICs that can measure three key properties of movement (angular velocity, acceleration, and heading) in a single IC. By measuring these three properties, you can gain a great deal of knowledge about an object’s movement and orientation.
The LSM9DS1 measures each of these movement properties in three dimensions. That means it produces nine pieces of data: acceleration in x/y/z, angular rotation in x/y/z, and magnetic force in x/y/z. The LSM9DS1 Breakout has labels indicating the accelerometer and gyroscope axis orientations, which share a right-hand rule relationship with each other.
Each sensor in the LSM9DS1 supports a wide spectrum of ranges: the accelerometer’s scale can be set to ¬± 2, 4, 8, or 16 g, the gyroscope supports ¬± 245, 500, and 2000 ¬∞/s, and the magnetometer has full-scale ranges of ¬± 4, 8, 12, or 16 gausses.
FEATURES
- 3 acceleration channels, 3 angular rate channels, 3 magnetic field channels
- ±2/±4/±8/±16 g linear acceleration full scale
- ±4/±8/±12/±16 gauss magnetic full scale
- ±245/±500/±2000 DPS angular rate full scale
- SPI / I2C serial interfaces
- Operating Voltage: 3.3V
RESOURCES
- Schematic
- Eagle Files
- LSM9DS1 datasheet
- Hookup Guide
- GitHub (Design Files)
- GitHub (Library)
- Product Video