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Just curious if anyone knows the price of these? I wonder if an MPU6050 tied to an attiny micro would be cheaper. Of course part of the value in the posted ind
by sigmaprimus 7y ago
Just curious if anyone knows the price of these? I wonder if an MPU6050 tied to an attiny micro would be cheaper.
Of course part of the value in the posted indicator is the resulting better (less rough) handling of a shipper that sees the monitoring device.
A good example of this phenomenon is the article posted on HN a few months back about bicycle companies shipping their bikes in TV boxes resulting in significantly less damage.
- freepor 7y agoThey’re about $5 each. An electronic solution would probably be similar cost at scale, but ultimately easier to tamper with by hacking it, etc. These have been used for decades and are pretty close to tamper proof.
- dmurray 7y agoThe electronic one could measure some other things, though. Like how long it spent in a tipped-over state, or what time it was tipped over so you know which shipper to blame.
- sigmaprimus 7y agoI guess it was actually a few years ago..time flies!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19008470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19008470
- exmadscientist 7y agoThere are electronic versions in the market already. About 10 years ago we used some from MSR [1] to monitor shipments of some very special objects with replacement costs well into six figures. And no, we didn't use just one... of anything. [1] https://www.msr.ch/en/ https://www.msr.ch/en/
- stordoff 7y agoI wonder if the simplicity/analog nature works in its favour here (even if cost is marginally more). "How did the ball _possibly_ get there if you didn't mishandle it?" vs. "I dunno, I guess your sensor must be broken".