The ingenious micro mechanisms inside your phone

Win oscilloscopes and more at Keysight s Live from the Lab Event Watch this video ad free on Nebula: How does your phone track its position in space MEMS devices Phones use small micro mechanical chips called MEMS, to monitor accelerations and rotations. These are fabricated using semiconductor technology, but are tiny little moving mechanisms. Today we re decapping a six axis IMU (MPU6050, on a GY521 breakout board, containing three accelerometers and three gyroscopes), looking at it under the SEM, printing up some models, doing some high speed video recording, and talking about how these little MEMS devices work. CAD, STL models (fair warning, it s a very challenging print ): UP