The Xtrinsic sensor evaluation kit comes with a sensor board together with the Freescale FRDM-KL25Z platform.
The software drivers and code enable engineers to easily evaluate and demonstrate the performance of the sensors in a variety of applications including:
Testers will be selected on the basis of quality of applications: we expect a full and complete description of why you want to test this particular product.
Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review within 2 months of receipt of the product.
Failure to provide this review within the above timescale will result in the enrolee being excluded from future Road Tests.
I was hoping to see what other people had to say about this sensor board and what their experiances were, are we still going to get to hear from the other four evaluators ?
We expect a review within 2 months of receipt of the product - at maximum - we look favourably upon those testers who return their reviews in a shorter amount of time.
Please exercise your creativity in providing your review - we just want it to be thorough. Thanks.
Can you please clarify the due date for this road test. I am also wondering if it's just the sensors that people want comments on or the whole board (the board seems to have been done already). I am planing on testing the sensors quite a bit to see how reliable they are as well as repeatable (to the best of the ability of the tools I have). Any comments or request from other Elemnts14ers will be helpful.
Firstly, many thanks for all the applications which you provided. After careful consideration, we have selected the following applicants for this RoadTest:
Tom Devine
Kevin Jose
Scott Lemon
Kas Lewis
Many thanks to all who applied; I encourage those who weren't successful this time to apply again.
I love the energy saving features of the sensors and how they can be used in battery powered devices to make incredible accessories. a gyroscope could make this a functional Inertial Measurement Unit.
a thing that suggest to make with this is an actual dice that can communicate with Android phones. it is relatively easy to read the orientation of the dice using Acc and Mag sensors so just a UART to blue tooth and we can play backgammon on our phones with a real dice.
What do you mean by 'compatible with the Raspberry Pi'? Does it plug into the RasPi? No. But it uses a protocol for communcation that you can use with the raspberry pi if you figure out the protocol they use and implement it in software. That's the beauty of GPIO.
I'm a technology lover and programmer both by vocation and avocation. I'd love to work with the sensors for purposes including home automation and home security. Also, I lead a computer club at the middle school, and this is just the ticket to get them excited about some things in the computer space.
What an interesting little sensor board! I already have the KL25Z board which is fantastic for the price. The only problem I have with it is the Arduino layout.
