How a Smartphone Knows Up from Down (accelerometer)

Name: How a Smartphone Knows Up from Down (accelerometer)
Uploaded: 2012-05-22
Duration: 4 min 25 s
Channel: engineerguy

engineerguy · 2M views · 2012 · 4:25

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Why the open web links it

Explains how smartphone accelerometers work through dissection and MEMS technology.

Linked by 14 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including hackaday.com, imore.com, vesti.bg, explainthatstuff.com, iculture.nl.