surodri / MarsKite

Creating mechanism to navigate a parachute for a satellite to land on mars

MarsKite

Creating mechanism to land a CubeSat on Mars.

MPU6050_raw.ino

Prints the acceleration and angular velocities along the three dimensions.

MPU6050_DMP6.ino

A fancier version that uses quaternions (to solve the "gimbal lock" problem). The output is yaw, roll, and pitch values (in angles). This includes a Processing sketch to visualize the orientation of the accelerometer/gyroscope.

MPU6050_DMP6_SD.ino

Adds SD card functionality to record data

Dependencies

• I2CDev
• MPU6050
• SD (included in Arduino Processing)

Issues

• The included visualization for MPU6050_DMP6 does not correctly parse the yaw, roll, and pitch.
• The SD card is likely reading from the wrong serial stream

Wiring

ARDUINO	MPU6050
VDD	-> 3.3V
GND	-> GND
A4	-> SDA
A5	-> SCL
PIN 2	-> INT (for MPU6050_DMP6 interrupts)

Lastly, add a jumper wire from VDD to VIO