SparkFun 9DoF IMU Breakout - LSM9DS1

The SparkFun LSM9DS1 Breakout is a versatile motion-sensing system-in-a-chip. It houses a 3-axis accelerometer 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis magnetometer – nine degrees of freedom (9DOF) on a single board! The LSM9DS1 from STMicroelectronics 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. This IMU-in-a-chip is so cool we put it on the quarter-sized breakout board you are currently viewing!The LSM9DS1 is one of only a handful of IC’s 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 gauss.