David Shen, Group Chief Technology Officer at Premier Farnell said, “We are delighted to work with Freescale to continually add the newest technologies to our portfolio. This expansion board uses one of the most popular accessory shield interfaces and allows designers from all industries to easily design in the latest accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer functionality into their designs.”
This 9-axis sensor expansion board for the FXAS21002C gyroscope and the FXOS8700CQ integrated e-compass, is compatible with most Freescale Freedom boards and is supported by the Freescale Sensor Fusion Toolbox.
The FRDM-STBC-AGM01 is suitable for a wide range of applications requiring motion, orientation and location including: industrial and consumer grade robots, UAVs, and RC vehicles, game controllers, gyro-stabilized electronic compass, gesture-based user interfaces and HMI, mobile phones and tablets and virtual and augmented reality devices (including glasses).