Now think of a digital compass. They work by measuring the pull ... you might use an accelerometer to compensate for a tilted magnetometer. The process involves taking measurements from both ...

Many tablets currently on the market have a very high-resolution, low latency magnetometer meant for geomagnetic field detection. Yes, it’s basically a compass but Android allows for the ...

Erin: They’ve hit. Go, go, go! Izzy: We did it by creating a door alarm sensor using the micro:bit’s in-built compass, called a magnetometer. When the door opened, the micro:bit was triggered ...