Much More than an IMU Sensor
erco
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... or so says the copy. Tiny and quite interesting if you have $299 burning a hole in your pocket! Hate to plug the "other guys" here, but this is new and unlike other sensors I have seen.
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1255
"It uses rate gyros, accelerometers, magnetic sensors, and an onboard 32-bit ARM Cortex processor to estimate the absolute sensor orientation 1000 times per second. Sensor orientation is reported using either quaternions or Euler angles over a TTL serial interface at user-customizable rates."
More product updates at http://www.pololu.com/update1103
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1255
"It uses rate gyros, accelerometers, magnetic sensors, and an onboard 32-bit ARM Cortex processor to estimate the absolute sensor orientation 1000 times per second. Sensor orientation is reported using either quaternions or Euler angles over a TTL serial interface at user-customizable rates."
More product updates at http://www.pololu.com/update1103