San Jose, Calif. — AKM Semiconductor said it has developed the industry's first fully integrated 3-axis electronic compass, combining three Hall-effect sensors and a mixed-signal processing chip.

AK09912 is 3-axis electronic compass IC with high sensitive Hall sensor technology.AK09912 is 3-axis electronic compass IC with high sensitive Hall sensor technology. Small package of AK09912 ...

Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) has launched its latest 3-axis electronic compass for portable appliances, the AK8963C. Electronic compasses measure geomagnetism to determine azimuth. This is used for ...

Ricoh adds a 3-axis compass, called an SE-3 GPS module, to its 500SE GPS camera, such that it displays the position and azimuth of the camera on its liquid crystal display. The military ...

The Instinct is constructed to military standards (MIL-STD-810G) for thermal, shock and water resistance. Garmin International, Inc., announced Instinct, a strong and durable GPS watch with built-in 3 ...

May 19, 2009 Garmin's latest handheld GPS offering for explorers who like to hit the open road - as well as veer completely off it on foot - crams a 3-axis compass, 850MB of on-board memory and a 3.2 ...

Inspired by the open source project Tau Labs (taulabs.org) and the strong multirotors community the German Quantec Networks GmbH has designed a new flight control for multi rotor helicopters. The ...

This clever little piece of kit is basically a great GPS unit bolted to a 3.2-megapixel camera with 4X zoom. It also has a tri-axial compass so you don’t have to have the unit level to tell your ...