MbientLab Launches a 10-axis IMU Dev Board

MetaMotion is a mini Bluetooth IMU for motion and gesture recognition from our friends at MbientLab.

The quarter-sized sensor features an ARM Cortex-M4F nRF52 SoC with an onboard 9-DOF IMU, high-precision altimeter, and 2.4GHz wireless communications at 33kb/s.

MetaMotion provides zero-drift 3D position/orientation data as gravity vectors, Euler angles, and quaternions using sensor fusion. It’s also compatible with iOS, Windows, and Android, while MbientLab’s open-source APIs are available as Java, Objective-C, C++, C# and Swift libraries.

The unit is very versatile, performing accurate, high speed orientation and displacement measurements. By the use of three different MEMS sensors (3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer) drift-free, high-speed orientation data around all three axes is achieved.

The optional temperature and barometric pressure sensors allow accurate altitude measurements.

The 10-axis dev board communicates with a host system via a Bluetooth 4.0 connection, and multiple MetaMotions can be used simultaneously with a single host system (up to seven on Windows/Android, six on iOS).

The sensor is capable of a data transmission rate of up to 125Hz, and can log data at up to 800Hz to be downloaded from the internal 8MB of Flash memory at a later time.

Interested? You can read more about MetaMotion, including all of its specs, on MbientLab’s Kickstarter page.