During your last hike, you may have taken a picture of a beautiful and wild creature: a snake! Were you tempted to move your fingers over its scales to feel its smooth shape? Before long, you may be ...

Cheap piezo buzzers are everywhere. They’re so cheap that they can be used in novelty birthday cards. Applying an alternating voltage across a piezo crystal makes it expand and contract, and fixing ...

Piezo elements are electromechanical transducers that convert mechanical forces (pressure, tensile stress or acceleration) into voltages. The inverse piezoelectric effect, precisely the opposite, ...

Piezo Trigger Switch circuit described here is a microcontroller-compatible shock/impact sensor switch module works on 5VDC supply. The whole circuit can be assembled on a 5×7 cm common circuit board.

Sound recording and playback have come a long way in the last century or so, but it’s fair to say there’s still a lot of interesting stuff locked away on old recordings. Not having a way to play it ...

A High-Speed Active Optics Piezo Deformable Mirror for Laser Focus Control - Adaptive Optics. The piezo-driven deformable mirror can operate with modulation frequencies up to 2 kHz. The internal ...

This video shows the operation and features of PI’s Piezo Inertia Drives. PIShift drives in particular are ideal for drift-free long-term positioning. The piezo inertia drives are space-saving and ...