Accelerometers and gyroscopes are found in nearly every phone nowadays and many other devices in the consumer, automotive, aerospace, and medical industries. However, just because they're found in the pocket of nearly everyone doesn't mean that everyone knows how they work. Let's fix that by using a little animation to review the basic structure of an accelerometer (whose principles apply also to a gyroscope), how that structure creates useful information, and how that information is shared in a way that we can interpret it. We hope you find this as interesting as we do!

This video tutorial is closely based on one of our EEFAQs on CircuitBread, go check out the written version that Jayesh did here: https://www.circuitbread.com/ee-faq/h...

0:00 Introduction
0:09 Difference between accelerometers and gyroscopes
0:39 IMUs and MEMS
1:12 The physical structure of accelerometers
1:50 Capacitor review
2:16 Differential capacitors in accelerometers
3:23 Real-life considerations of accelerometers
4:09 Output from a real IMU
5:02 Applications of accelerometers and gyroscopes
5:39 What else is there on CircuitBread.com?

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