SparkFun 9 Degrees of Freedom IMU Breakout - LSM9DS1

Description

The LSM9DS1 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) in 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. 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 supports the following ranges: scale ranges of ± 9, 1, 2, or 4 gauss.

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

documents:

Schematic
Eagle Files
Hookup Guide
Datasheet (LSM9DS1)
GitHub (Design Files)
GitHub (Library)
Product Video

Product information