Interfacing an MPU6050 IMU Sensor with Raspberry Pi
- Vns Akhil tech badi channel
- Jun 26, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 29, 2024
The MPU6050 is an IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor that comes with an Accelerometer, Gyroscope sensor, and a temperature sensor too. It consists of a MEMS accelerometer, a temperature sensor and a MEMS gyro. When converting analogue values to digital, this device is very precise because it has a 16bit analogue to digital converter hardware for each channel. This module is capable of capturing channels x, y and z simultaneously. For interact with the host controller, it has an I2C interface. For many applications, such as drones, robots and motion sensors, this is a very useful unit. It is sometimes referred to as the Triple Axis Accelerometer or Gyroscope.
List of components required:
1. Raspberry Pi
2. MPU-6050
3. Jumping wires
4. Breadboard
Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers which was developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the United Kingdom. Early on, the Raspberry Pi project focused on encouraging basic computer science teaching in schools and in developing economies. The original design later became much more popular than expected, selling for uses such as automobiles outside its target group.
MPU-6050: The MPU 6050 is a 6 Degrees of Freedom or a six-axis IMU sensor, which means that it produces six values. Three values for the accelerometer and three for the gyroscope. The MPU 6050 is a MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) based sensor.
Jumping wires: Jumper wires are essentially wires with connector pins at either end, allowing them to be used to connect two points to each other without soldering. Jumper wires are usually used for breadboards and other prototyping instruments to make it easy to adjusts circuits.
Breadboard: The breadboard is a rectangular acrylic board with a tonne of tiny holes inside it. Such holes allow you to quickly insert electronic components into the model of an electronic circuit, such as this one with a battery, a switch, a resistor, and an LED.
Circuit Diagram:
In #MPU6050 we have 8 eight pins on them in that 8 pins we VCC, SCL, ground and SDA evidence. Now we will setup i2c communication format with the raspberry pi board here VCC is connected to the 5-volt pin, ground is #connected with ground, SCL with SCL pin and SDA pin with SDA pin on the raspberry pi. This sensor can we used to measure velocity, rotational velocity and many other parameters.
Code:
Working:
In-circuit #diagram we have already gone through connections with the help of bread we connect MPU 6050 sensor with #raspberry pi board through jumping wires.
The above picture is after switching on power to raspberry pi. If we observe #LED lights are switched this shows that power supplied throughout the #circuit.
The above picture is about i2c communication in raspberry pi.
After running the program it reads data of accelerometer and gyroscope.
Check the Project Working video here - Interfacing IMU Sensor - MPU6050 (Accelerometer & Gyroscope) with Raspberry Pi
See Also:
Order Electronics Projects
Want us to guide you through your project or make the project for you? Click on the button below or reach out to us via Call/WhatsApp at (+91) - 7600948607
You can -
Order Basic Electronics Projects
Order Embedded Systems Projects
Order IoT Projects
Order FPGA Projects
Order VLSI Projects
Order Image Processing Projects
Order Matlab Projects
Order TinkerCAD Projects
Order Proteus Projects
Click on the button below to fill out the project inquiry form -
Create Various Projects
Check out our Free Arduino Projects Playlist - Arduino Projects
Check out our Free Raspberry Pi Projects Playlist - Raspberry Pi Projects
Check out our Free TinkerCAD Projects Playlist - TinkerCAD Projects
Check out our Free IoT Projects Playlist - IoT Projects
Check out our Free Home Automation Projects Playlist - Home Automation Projects
Check out our Free NodeMCu Projects Playlist - NodeMCu Projects
Follow us -
Please do follow us i.e. #learnelectronicsindia to get daily updates about new blogs, videos, courses, products, offers, competitions, quizzes, and Internship Opportunities.
👏 The way the author covered the technical aspects while keeping it approachable for beginners is truly commendable. I have been searching for a comprehensive guide like this for quite some time, and I must say, this blog exceeds all expectations.
Informative and concise! LearnElectronics India always delivers quality content.