I found this in one of my rss feeds:
The MPU-9150™ is the world’s first 9-axis motion tracking device designed for the low power, low cost, and high performance requirements of consumer electronics equipment including smartphones, tablets and wearable sensors.
The MPU-9150™ is actually two chips in one package: the MPU-6050 ( 3-axis gyro / 3-axis accelerometer ), and an AK8975 ( 3-axis digital compass ). They’ve also included what they call a Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP™) which is used to precisely process and ship sensor data over I2C.
It’s pretty small- 4x4x1mm with a 2.4 to 3.34V operating range. So… probably not something you can hook-up directly to a microcontroller. [Via]
Comment by Francisc Bereczky on June 13, 2012 at 4:33am This is probabilly for APM3...
right
Comment by Ritchie on June 13, 2012 at 5:16am
Comment by ThomasB on June 13, 2012 at 5:29am The bad thing: 9150 has only I2C support. A MPU9100 with SPI support seems not to be planned.
(That's a pitty, because it's pin compatible to the MPU6000, so.. easy to upgrade)
The 3.3 V are no problem, t's the same voltage the MPU6000 on the APM2 is using.
Additionally at first the AKA8975 has to show if it can beat the HMC5883L :)
Comment by Kirill on June 13, 2012 at 5:38am 9150 has only I2C interface, while 6000 has both I2C and SPI. As far as I know, the footprint for 9xxx is the same as for 6xxx, so you can just swap the chips without hardware changes. Unfortunately, in APM it's connected via SPI.
Comment by Jawahar balaji on June 13, 2012 at 6:12am
Comment by Andras Schaffer on June 13, 2012 at 7:29am Same closed source waporware scrap as the MPU6000
Comment by ThomasB on June 13, 2012 at 7:34am Why vaporware? I've a MPU6000 lying on my desk, so it seems to exist.
Regarding to closed source: you can access the sensor data of gyro and acc directly and make your own sensor fusion :)
Comment by CrashingDutchman on June 13, 2012 at 7:39am Nice find Jawahar! You can buy it here ($ 199): http://us-dc1-order.store.yahoo.net/cgi-bin/wg-order?ysco_key_event...
Comment by Andras Schaffer on June 13, 2012 at 7:52am The main selling point of MPU6000 was the so called DMP, and offloading sensor fusion from CPU, which was turned out as a closed source implementation and Invensese refused to give any detail out to the open source community (including diydrones). Now in MPU9000 they selling the same "DMP" function....Take a look at this discussion http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/arduimu-v3-source-code-for-dmp
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