SparkFun Photon IMU Shield

Description

This is the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield, a versatile motion-sensing add-on board for your Photon device. Each IMU shield is equipped with an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chiphat houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer. T.hat's right, 9 degrees of freedom (9DOF) from a single IC!

Each sensor in the LSM9DS1 supports a large variety of ranges: the accelerometers scale can be set to 2, 4, 6, 8, or 16 g, the gyroscope supports ± 245, 500, and 2000 ° / s, and the magnetometer has full-scale ranges of ± 2, 4, 8, or 12 gauss. The SparkFun Photon IMU Shield comes with the headers already soldered on, so you can plug and play!

The Particle Photon is a tiny WiFi development kit for creating connected projects and products. Sporting at 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3 and built-in WiFi, the Photon is not only powerful, but easy to use. The small form factor is ideal for IoT projects with cloud-connectivity.

Notes: Not only can this shield operate with the Photon, it can also be used with the Particle Core! We understand that there are a ton of you out there who still haven't been able to get your hands on a Photon yet and would like to start playing with this shield now. If that person is you we hope we have obliged!

Features:

3 acceleration channels, 3 angular rate channels, 3 magnetic field channels
± 2 / ± 4 / ± 6 / ± 8 / ± 16 g linear acceleration full scale
± 2 / ± 4 / ± 8 / ± 12 gauss magnetic full scale
± 245 / ± 500 / ± 2000 dps angular rate full scale
16-bit data output
Headers and Connectors Pre-Soldered
Compatible with the Photon and the Core

documents:

Schematic
Eagle Files
Hookup Guide
Photon Development Guide
Datasheets (LSM9DS1)
GitHub

Product information