Hi there! Finally you can pre-order the ArduIMU V3 here.. You can find more info abut it in my last post here.
The final version of the board for full production is here, I'm expecting to start shipping them this Friday or Monday.
We are still working on documentation and giving the final cosmetic touches to the example code to have it ready before you have one in your hands and at the same time we are shipping samples to developers to do a full DCM integration.
From now on our new color will purple! All our new products will feature a Lilypad style look!
(Note: this is a stand-alone IMU, and is not designed to be a replacement for the "Oilpan" IMU shield of ArduPilot Mega.)
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I thought Jordi said there are some options. With the 328 on board you should have a great deal of control to decide how you would like to process the data. I am sure you can get raw sensor values and use 328 for dcm but I want to explore what the 6000 can do.
@Fab--I was thinking of APM with its built-in IMU and wondering how this board would be used. I didn't think about the legacy ArduPilot, but being legacy, wouldn't be expecting ongoing development of hardware to support it.
Well, I certainly hope that any kind of data preprocessing or even fusion on the MPU-6000 will be strictly optional. I'm pretty sure you can always read the actual raw data registers.
@Paul, are you talking about legacy Ardupilot and not APM? If so, then the Ardupilot shield can work with thermopiles attached but as a more accurate alternative the imu can be used with the serial connection. It sounds like Jordi is making the software for the imu so that it can be used with old style AP but this is not entirely clear. In any event it is not a big job. If I recall the shield on the old ap provides thermopile, air speed and gps. If you don't need air speed then you will not need the shield, just ap and imu.
I hope this is not a dumb question. How does this IMU board relate to the ArduPilot Shield? How would a standalone IMU be put to use?
@Fab: Chill out dude, do you have a problem with success and people making money? Be thankful for what we have nowadays ... Before there was radioshack, tandy, heathkit, and other crap. Now we've got sparkfun, diydrones, adafruit, dangerousprototypes, seeed, etc.. The diy/maker scene is better than it has been in a looong while. DIYDrones is pretty open about their business, and even says straight up how they price their products proportional to component cost.
@Chris: What you said was factually correct, but as with many things in life could have been done better. Learn this tiny lesson, move on, and keep on rockin'.
@Kirill its to try make products look more pretty to attract other demographics to DIYdrones :P
Also I was wondering if eagle files will be released for this board, I noticed that for boards such as HMC5883L magneto board has eagles files in PDF form?
Since the MPU6000 chip handles the sensor fusion and provides the processed angles, why would you need to implement DCM as well? Are there other sensor inputs that you are accounting for with the DCM?
When will we have the code. I would be happy with something similar to the imu v1.8 with the v2. Is all the hardware/ code working. Give me Euler angles and such and I can handle the rest. Like is the DCM and mag working?
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