For instance, a malfunctioning oxygen sensor accounted for about 28 percent of Mini repairs in 2012, while bad ignition control modules accounted for 26 percent of Saab repairs, according to CarMD.

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Freespace Sensor Modules: For companies that want to easily integrate motion control into their own products, Hillcrest launched a line of new embeddable modules.

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Freespace Sensor Modules are used by engineers to add inertial motion control to a product without having to learn about motion sensing or MEMS. These compact modules, the smallest of which is 9mm x 19mm x 2.5mm, are pre-calibrated for mass production, provide a well-documented API for interpreting motion, and provide data such as cursor position, linear acceleration, angular position, and angular velocity to enable the creation of novel applications.

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You can even integrate the Butt Probe into a modular synth setup, using other modules or a sequencer to control the filter.

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Once injected, the malware would contact one of the many command and control servers around the world and download additional modules as needed.

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In order to determine the location of the leak, the crew had been sealing off small peripheral modules of the space station while Mission Control looked for accelerated pressure drops inside the sealed-off sections.

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