[HN Gopher] ADXL345 (2024)
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       ADXL345 (2024)
        
       Author : picture
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2025-07-05 02:40 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tinytransistors.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tinytransistors.net)
        
       | benbojangles wrote:
       | Can you look at the cheap ali icm20948 breakouts? their mag
       | compass does not work without 1.8v level shifting and i'm
       | wondering if it just low quality pcb planning and if the imu chip
       | on it is real/fake/recycled/salvaged
        
       | brookst wrote:
       | I still find it astounding that parts like this can be had in
       | quantity 1 for a couple of dollars, probably close to a dollar
       | each in quantity.
       | 
       | We live in the future, and we did back in 2008.
        
         | colejohnson66 wrote:
         | MEMS, in general, is a marvel in its own right. The idea of
         | reusing the planar process that's used to make normal ICs, but
         | to measure physical movement is quite an engineering hack.
        
       | SomeHacker44 wrote:
       | This was a nice writeup and teardown, similar to the ones our
       | fellow HN member kens does.
        
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