| 39 | | [[Image(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BzkAAOSw9r1V-9c0/s-l1600.jpg, align=right, width=200)]] The team has a low cost ($3-4) Invensense MPU6050 3-axis gyroscope/accelerometer (aka Inertial Management Unit or IMU). You can read about it and how to program it [http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/MPU-6050 here]. Because it is very inexpensive, it is used in many robotics projects such as a [http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Wheel-Self-Balancing-Robot-by-using-Arduino-and-/ self-balancing robot] and this [http://diyhacking.com/arduino-mpu-6050-imu-sensor-tutorial/ tutorial]. |
| | 39 | [[Image(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BzkAAOSw9r1V-9c0/s-l1600.jpg, align=right, width=200)]] The team has a low cost ($3-4) Invensense MPU6050 3-axis gyroscope/accelerometer (aka Inertial Management Unit or IMU) aka [http://www.dfrobot.com/wiki/index.php/6_DOF_Sensor-MPU6050_%28SKU:SEN0142%29 6DOF sensor]. You can read about it and how to program it [http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/MPU-6050 here] or review this excellent [http://diyhacking.com/arduino-mpu-6050-imu-sensor-tutorial/ tutorial]. Because it is very inexpensive, it is used in many robotics projects such as a [http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Wheel-Self-Balancing-Robot-by-using-Arduino-and-/ self-balancing robot]. |
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| | 41 | An IMU can be valuable to give a robot a sense of balance and direction (e.g. for navigation). The MPU6050 [https://code.google.com/p/nav6/ can be used with the RoboRio or cRio]. |
