Examples include the FSM-SENS-1, a 6-axis sensor-only module that integrates with an external Freespace MotionEngine, and the FSM-SI-2, which combines the Freespace MotionEngine on an embedded microprocessor along with a 3-axis digital gyroscope, 3-axis digital accelerometer and optional 3-axis magnetometer (compass) to provide high-performance, calibrated motion data for a variety of applications.
It combines an Arduino-compatible processor with a light sensor, a temperature sensor, a 3-axis accelerometer, a joystick, a set of pushbuttons, a slider, an RGB LED, and a buzzer.
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Solar panels typically account for only about the third of the cost of a single-axis power plant, thanks to a plunge in photovoltaic module prices in recent years.
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On a more old school tip is the "high performance sensitive" remote, which has a nine-axis gyroscope inside.
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The smartphone is designed for an optimal gaming experience with a six-axis sensor that fine tunes its accelerometer's ability to interpret simple movements of the device, so when the phone tilts up and down or left and right, the game can immediately respond in the same directions.
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He said that he believed it was extraterrestrial, as a satellite would have been traveling on a west-east axis, whereas the object traveled in the opposite direction before bursting into flames.
The Spanish government's decision to align itself with Britain and the United States reflected Mr Aznar's belief that his country had too often allowed itself to be dominated by a Franco-German axis within Europe.
The short dimensions of the vast compound are precisely aligned along a north-south axis, while the east-west axis has been deliberately diverted 0.75 degrees south of east and north of west, seemingly in order to give observers a three day anticipation of the spring equinox.
Subjected not just to constant scrutiny but to deeply personal poking and twitching, the company and its two-legged resources themselves became a study: Of how a menacing axis of animal-rights zealots can nearly starve an enterprise they aim to ruin.
So, a solar power plant equipped with a QBotix robot will generate power at a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) that is 8 to 15 percent lower than a power plant with single-axis tracker and 15 to 20 percent lower than a power plan with panels in fixed positions.
In order to get the functionality it needed, APX grafted a 5 megapixel camera, mic and a full suite of motion sensors to provide nine-axis head tracking onto a Moverio headset.
The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.
It will provide 10 to 15 percent more than one that moves on a single East-West axis.
The first is that the history of the European Union suggests that a powerful Franco-German axis is hard to resist for ever.
It is constructed on a grid using a 1, 000-year-old urban planning technique, with a 7.5km north-to-south axis slicing through the city and marked by the impressive gate houses dotted symmetrical along the skyline.
He allied Germany very publicly with Russia and France in opposing the US-led invasion of Iraq in what was dubbed a "Berlin-Moscow-Paris axis".
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The Oregon series has a built-in 3-axis electronic compass with accelerometer tilt compensation, which shows where users are heading even when they are standing still, or not holding it level.
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Beatriz Nofal, of Eco-Axis, a Buenos Aires business consultancy, points out that all the Mercosur countries, especially Brazil, have used such devices as tax credits on capital-goods imports, which break the principle of a customs union.
"We're finding that when you rub a natural biological surface that has an orientation - that has a grain, if you will - and you run that grain perpendicularly to the long axis of the ridges, we find a dramatic increase in friction, " Dr Dominy told BBC News.
You can bookmark any page and get at it later through a common portal -- hence the Axis name.
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Near field communications (NFC) is among the leaders with very high expectations (Y-axis) and a (5-10)-year cycle before a plateau.
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In this demonstration, we're shown how users can manipulate objects on a 3D plane via the Z-axis by pulling the pen away from the display.
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British dreams of turning the Franco-German axis into a triangle may be little more than that, while the pound remains in splendid isolation from euro-land.
The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at a distant star, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.
The knobs are connected to a pulley system, which moves a brass stylus along an X-Y axis.
Mr Bush's speech clearly marked a singular triumph for the Rumsfeld-Cheney axis.
To provide a better experience, Olympus has created the STYLUS SH-50, a new premium, compact long zoom camera that's equipped with 5-Axis Video Stabilization, 3-Axis Image Stabilization for stills and Full 1080p HD Video.
As of last week, Clyde Union Pumps (formerly Weir Pumps) has been added to the long list, and Dundee's diagnostics firm Axis-Shield is resisting a takeover bid from the US - at least at the current bid price.
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