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A technical guide on selecting the best photodiode. Learn about key parameters like spectral response, rise time, and dark current to optimize your design.
Why Your Occupancy Detection Strategy is Probably Failing (And How PD Arrays Fix It)
You’re sitting in a conference room, deep in thought or typing away on a laptop, and suddenly—click. The lights go out. You have to wave
Drone Optical Flow Sensor Guide: Stabilize UAVs Without GPS
Why Your Drone Crashes Indoors (And How to Fix It) You spend weeks calibrating a new heavy-lift quadcopter. The GPS lock looks solid outside. You
Encoder Photodiodes: The Heart of Precise Robotic Motion Control
There is nothing more frustrating in the industrial automation world than a robot arm that’s got the “jitters.” You know what I’m talking about. You
IoT Sensor Nodes: Low-Power Photodiodes for Battery-Operated Devices
There is nothing—and I mean nothing—more frustrating for an IoT designer than a battery that dies three months into a “five-year” deployment. You calculate the
Smart Agriculture: Optical Sensors for Soil and Crop Monitoring
If you are building agricultural IoT devices, you know the pressure isn’t just coming from the weather. It’s coming from the market. Farmers don’t want
LiDAR Photodiodes: Why APDs and PINs Are Still King in Autonomous Driving
Look, the hype around autonomous driving has been a rollercoaster. A few years ago, everyone thought we’d be sleeping in the back of our cars