Does anyone know where to buy ANALOG MEMS gyro breakout boards? It seems that any board made by Sparkfun or similar manufactures are now discontinued. I cannot find a single analog MEMS gyro breakout board for sale anywhere. There are plenty of 6 or 9 DOF IMU setups out there, as well as stand alone digital MEMS gyros.
The reason analog is needed is for use in an undergraduate engineering teaching lab where dSPACE systems are used to read analog sensors for which analog accelerometers are still plentiful and can be easily sourced. We are on our last set of analog gyros with no replacements going into next year - anyone who has worked in a teaching lab knows that is dangerous as students are very capable of frying sensors and spares are needed.
We have a digital sensor lab at the end of the course using RPi which is good initial exposure for the students, but we would still like to keep the analog gyro lab in rotation if possible.
If these sensors are truly not made anymore in a breakout board format, does anyone have any insight as to why analog MEMS gyros have seemingly fallen off the face of the earth? I know the future is digital, just strange to still see so many analog accelerometers available.
Thanks for the help!!