MPU6050_light

Lightweight, fast and simple library to communicate with the MPU6050

⬇️ The source code is available at https://github.com/rfetick/MPU6050_light

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Description

The library is made to retrieve accelerometer and gyroscope measurements from the MPU6050. This data is processed using a complementary filter to provide and estimation of tilt angles on X and Y with respect to the horizontal frame. The hypothesis for the validity of these angles are:

• small linear accelerations (the gravity is the dominant one)
• small loop delay between two calls to update() so the approximation angle[t]=angle[t-1]+gyro*dt is valid
• heading (angle Z) is valid for small X and Y angles

Documentation

A documentation PDF is provided within the library folder, otherwise get it online at https://github.com/rfetick/MPU6050_light. It includes definitions of the functions and gives a minimal example of usage of the code. More examples can be found in the dedicated examples/ subfolder of the library.

License

See the LICENSE file

Authors

rfetick : modifications for better memory management, speed and efficiency.

tockn : initial author of the library (v1.5.2)

The library has also been improved thanks to the comments of edgar-bonet and augustosc