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Your Smartphone is a Science Lab: 50 Physics Measures you can do with your mobile

Can you imagine that your smartphone can do more than 50 different types of measurements on sound, movement, light, color, energy? All of...

Sensors

Christophe Chazot

Mar 1, 202311 min read

The 18 sensors in your smartphone

Did you know that your smartphone can contain up to 18 different types of sensors? In this article we review them and explain what they can be used for! Table of content The different categories of sensors What is MEMS technology? The accelerometer - The gyroscope - The orientation sensor - The pedometer The thermometer - The barometer - The humidity sensor The Magnetometer - The GPS - The Lidar The photoelectric cell - The CMOS sensor - The heart rate sensor T

Sensors

Christophe Chazot

Feb 23, 202313 min read