Have you ever wondered how a magnetometer works? We sure have, which was why we were happy to stumble upon this article on simple homebrew fluxgate magnetometers. As [Maurycy] explains, clues to how a ...

Among the many scientific breakthroughs developed as World War II loomed was the fluxgate magnetometer, which detects and measures magnetic intensities in its immediate area. The Navy saw an immediate ...

They've flown on high-profile interplanetary and more modest low-Earth-orbiting missions, but in all cases the ubiquitous fluxgate magnetometers that scientists use to measure the intensity of a ...

Victor Vacquier Sr., professor emeritus of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died Jan. 11, 2009, in La Jolla, Calif., from pneumonia. He was 101 years old. Vacquier's ...

Aim-TTi has developed a current probe which is cable of measuring currents in PCB tracks. Measurement of current normally requires either the insertion of a shunt resistor, or for the conductor to be ...