Photon IMU Shield
Product details
| Management number | 205894683 | Release Date | 2025/11/02 | List Price | $35.00 | Model Number | 205894683 | ||
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This is the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield, a versatile motion-sensing add-on board for your Photon device. Each IMU shield is equipped with an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chip that houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer. That's right, 9 degrees of freedom (9DOF) from a single IC!
Each sensor in the LSM9DS1 from STMicroelectronics supports a large variety of ranges: the accelerometers scale can be set to ± 2, 4, 6, 8, or 16 g, the gyroscope supports ± 245, 500, and 2000 °/s, and the magnetometer has full-scale ranges of ± 2, 4, 8, or 12 gauss. The SparkFun Photon IMU Shield comes with the headers already soldered on, so you can plug and play!
The Particle Photon is a tiny WiFi development kit for creating connected projects and products. Sporting a 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3 and built-in WiFi, the Photon is not only powerful, but easy to use. The small form factor is ideal for IoT projects with cloud-connectivity.
**Note:** Not only can this shield operate with the Photon, it can also be used with the Particle Core! We understand that there are a ton of you out there who still haven't been able to get your hands on a Photon yet and would like to start playing with this shield now. If that person is you we hope we have obliged!
**Features:**
* 3 acceleration channels, 3 angular rate channels, 3 magnetic field channels
* ±2/±4/±6/±8/±16 g linear acceleration full scale
* ±2/±4/±8/±12 gauss magnetic full scale
* ±245/±500/±2000 dps angular rate full scale
* 16-bit data output
* Headers and Connectors Pre-Soldered
* Compatible with the Photon and the Core
**Documents:**
* [Schematic](https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/IoT/Photon-IMU-Shield-v10.pdf)
* [Eagle Files](https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/IoT/Photon-IMU-Shield-v10.zip)
* [Hookup Guide](https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/photon-imu-shield-hookup-guide)
* [Photon Development Guide](https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/photon-development-guide)
* [Datasheet](https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/IoT/LSM9DS1.pdf) (LSM9DS1)
* [GitHub](https://github.com/sparkfun/Photon_IMU_Shield)
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