December 13, 2012. KEYENCE has announced that its new IL Series compact triangulation-based laser sensor offers a measurement range that reaches 11.48 ft (3.5 m) with 3.94 mil (100 µm) repeatability, ...

In vast areas of the globe the use of sensor-equipped microcontroller-driven systems has become pervasive in most industries and nearly every corner of daily life. Within these embedded systems, an ...

A new microcontroller (MCU) for industrial sensor designs claims to reduce overall system size and the component count by incorporating the analog front-end (AFE) and the MCU on a single chip. It adds ...

As more sensors and actuators are added into electronic devices, pressure is growing to more seamlessly move data seamlessly back and forth between analog and digital circuitry. Analog and digital ...

IEEE P1451.4 defines a sensor with embedded TEDS and a mixed-mode, analog and digital interface. Most sensors put out some sort of analog signal -- a voltage, current, or resistance, that varies in a ...

A spacecraft can estimate the attitude state by comparing external measurements from attitude sensors with reference information. CubeSats tend to use 4-quadrant analog solar sensors which have the ...

Acromag has released another BusWorks Ethernet I/O module to simplify the task of interfacing data from virtually any analog sensor to a Modbus TCP/IP control/monitoring system. The new 958EN model ...

The IL Series triangulation-based laser displacement sensor reaches 11.48 ft (3.5 m) with 3.94 mil (100 µm) repeatability, regardless of target color. An easy-to-use interface offers a simple approach ...

Adafruit just posted an awesome tutorial on reading analog sensors with the Raspberry Pi. It’s a great walkthrough that can be applied to your next Raspi project as well as any project where you just ...

The new hotness for DIY electronics is mechanical keyboards, and over the past few years we’ve seen some amazing innovations. This one is something different. It adds an analog sensor to nearly any ...