Preparation

No preparation needed!

What will we do?

Sensors shape how we interact with the world. They measure temperature, motion, light, pressure, sound, magnetic fields, and much more. They are inside phones, cars, medical devices, factories, and scientific instruments.

In this meetup, we will look at the basic idea of sensing: how a physical quantity in the real world is converted into a signal that electronics can process. We will focus especially on semiconductor-based sensors and explain the core ideas in a simple and intuitive way.

Topics include:

• What is a sensor?
• How does measurement work in practice?
• Why are sensors never perfect?
• Common examples of semiconductor-based sensing
• How modern devices combine many sensors at once
• Why the sensor market is growing so quickly and how AI can influence it

This will be a very basic and accessible talk. No prior technical background is required.

Organization

You are worried you have nothing to contribute? No worries! Everyone is welcome!

There always is a mix of German and English speakers and we configure the discussion so that everyone feels comfortable participating. The primary language is English.

This meetup will be hosted by Bibhu.

There will be snacks and drinks.

We will go and get dinner after the meetup. Anyone who has time is welcome to join.

In the above map the location where you should leave your bikes is marked in blue and the entrance (at the end of the metal ramp) with a red cross.

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