Feature request - acceleratometer

[Uncle Michael]

Joe,
Do you know for a fact that iAutomate tags use rolling balls and not MEMS? If so, do you know if anyone markets them separately?

[piperpilot]

What is MEMS? I'm not sure how you could do that level of sensitivity with a rolling ball. There are vibration sensors out there that they might be using.

[Michael McSharry]

MEMS is a technology using very small IC-fabrication like techniques. I think the biggest commercial use is by TI with the DLP (mirrors) for the HD TVs.

[Uncle Michael]

What is MEMS? I'm not sure how you could do that level of sensitivity with a rolling ball. There are vibration sensors out there that they might be using.

I'm guessing most systems that detect vibration use something like this:
http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0%2C28...L103%2C00.html

Here are a couple of general references to MEMS:
http://www.memsnet.org/mems/what-is.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMS
If you read these and understand them, then you'll know more than I do.