LSM9DS1 9DoF ±2000°/sec ±16g IMU

• 3 acceleration channels, 3 angular rate channels, 3 magnetic field channels
• ±2/±4/±8/±16 g linear acceleration full scale
• SPI / I2C serial interfaces
• Operating Voltage: 3.3V

The LSM9DS1 9DoF ±2000°/sec ±16g IMU is a versatile, motion-sensing system-in-a-chip. It houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer – nine degrees of freedom (9DOF) in a single IC! The LSM9DS1 is equipped with a digital interface, but even that is flexible: it supports both I2C and SPI, so you’ll be hard-pressed to find a microcontroller it doesn’t work with.

The LSM9DS1 9DoF ±2000°/sec ±16g IMU is one of only a handful of IC’s that can measure three key properties of movement – angular velocity, acceleration, and heading – in a single IC. By measuring these three properties, you can gain a great deal of knowledge about an object’s movement and orientation. The LSM9DS1 measures each of these movement properties in three dimensions. That means it produces nine pieces of data: acceleration in x/y/z, angular rotation in x/y/z, and magnetic force in x/y/z. The LSM9DS1 Breakout has labels indicating the accelerometer and gyroscope axis orientations, which share a right-hand rule relationship with each other.