Hi guys, so I was hoping to use the arduIMU as sort of like an arduino with an accelerometer attached. I'm using "ArduIMU V3 1.9.8 (Edwin and Michel Edition)" through arduino v1.0.1 and I think I got everything to upload properly but I had a few questions.
Firstly is it okay if for now I power the board through my FTDI board?
Also can I run the whole board through 3.7v battery and 3.3v board? As from looking at the schematic sheet I'm thinking that the only parts I need should be able to run off this voltage?
Also I noticed a whole heap of people were able to show accelerometer data through their serial monitor, but when I open mine up with my FTDI board it just shows a lot of maligned writing through all my different baud rates?
If it helps whenever I power on the board the Z and Y LED flashes like crazy for a lil while and then I get the maligned data appearing on the serial monitor and the LED stops flashing
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The crazy looking characters are probably binary if changing baud doesn't fix it. Check your #defines in the sketch and make sure #define output binary is set to 0. If you have ArduIMU_Test, you can see the data coming through in a window and you get a nice display that's better than the serial monitor in arduino and it will work with ascii or binary. If you connect to an old ardupilot you'll need to output binary.
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