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Arduino drone V2.0 - Acc raw data read

You can download the Acc raw data read code here


Unzip the file. Open the .ino file and upload it to the Arduino UNO/NANO. Make THIS connection open the serial monitor once uploaded. Remember to select 9600 baud rate or change the speed in the code.



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/* http://www.youtube.com/c/electronoobs
 * 
 * This is an example where we configure te data of the MPU6050
 * and read the Acceleration data and print it to the serial monitor
 * 
 * Arduino pin    |   MPU6050
 * 5V             |   Vcc
 * GND            |   GND
 * A4             |   SDA
 * A5             |   SCL
 */
 
//Includes
#include <Wire.h>


//Variables
int acc_error=0;                         //We use this variable to only calculate once the Acc data error
float rad_to_deg = 180/3.141592654;      //This value is for pasing from radians to degrees values
float Acc_rawX, Acc_rawY, Acc_rawZ;    //Here we store the raw data read 
float Acc_angle_x, Acc_angle_y;          //Here we store the angle value obtained with Acc data
float Acc_angle_error_x, Acc_angle_error_y; //Here we store the initial Acc data error





void setup() {
  Wire.begin();                           //begin the wire comunication
  
  Wire.beginTransmission(0x68);           //begin, Send the slave adress (in this case 68)              
  Wire.write(0x6B);                       //make the reset (place a 0 into the 6B register)
  Wire.write(0x00);
  Wire.endTransmission(true);             //end the transmission
  
  Wire.beginTransmission(0x68);           //Start communication with the address found during search.
  Wire.write(0x1C);                       //We want to write to the ACCEL_CONFIG register
  Wire.write(0x10);                       //Set the register bits as 00010000 (+/- 8g full scale range)
  Wire.endTransmission(true); 

  Serial.begin(9600);                     //Remember to set this same baud rate to the serial monitor  



/*Here we calculate the acc data error before we start the loop
 * I make the mean of 200 values, that should be enough*/
  if(acc_error==0)
  {
    for(int a=0; a<200; a++)
    {
      Wire.beginTransmission(0x68);
      Wire.write(0x3B);                       //Ask for the 0x3B register- correspond to AcX
      Wire.endTransmission(false);
      Wire.requestFrom(0x68,6,true); 
      
      Acc_rawX=(Wire.read()<<8|Wire.read())/4096.0 ; //each value needs two registres
      Acc_rawY=(Wire.read()<<8|Wire.read())/4096.0 ;
      Acc_rawZ=(Wire.read()<<8|Wire.read())/4096.0 ;

      
      /*---X---*/
      Acc_angle_error_x = Acc_angle_error_x + ((atan((Acc_rawY)/sqrt(pow((Acc_rawX),2) + pow((Acc_rawZ),2)))*rad_to_deg));
      /*---Y---*/
      Acc_angle_error_y = Acc_angle_error_y + ((atan(-1*(Acc_rawX)/sqrt(pow((Acc_rawY),2) + pow((Acc_rawZ),2)))*rad_to_deg)); 
      
      if(a==199)
      {
        Acc_angle_error_x = Acc_angle_error_x/200;
        Acc_angle_error_y = Acc_angle_error_y/200;
        acc_error=1;
      }
    }
  }//end of error calculation   
}//end of setup void






void loop() {
  //////////////////////////////////////Acc read/////////////////////////////////////

  Wire.beginTransmission(0x68);     //begin, Send the slave adress (in this case 68) 
  Wire.write(0x3B);                 //Ask for the 0x3B register- correspond to AcX
  Wire.endTransmission(false);      //keep the transmission and next
  Wire.requestFrom(0x68,6,true);    //We ask for next 6 registers starting withj the 3B  
  /*We have asked for the 0x3B register. The IMU will send a brust of register.
  * The amount of register to read is specify in the requestFrom function.
  * In this case we request 6 registers. Each value of acceleration is made out of
  * two 8bits registers, low values and high values. For that we request the 6 of them  
  * and just make then sum of each pair. For that we shift to the left the high values 
  * register (<<) and make an or (|) operation to add the low values.
  If we read the datasheet, for a range of+-8g, we have to divide the raw values by 4096*/    
  Acc_rawX=(Wire.read()<<8|Wire.read())/4096.0 ; //each value needs two registres
  Acc_rawY=(Wire.read()<<8|Wire.read())/4096.0 ;
  Acc_rawZ=(Wire.read()<<8|Wire.read())/4096.0 ; 
 /*Now in order to obtain the Acc angles we use euler formula with acceleration values
 after that we substract the error value found before*/  
 /*---X---*/
 Acc_angle_x = (atan((Acc_rawY)/sqrt(pow((Acc_rawX),2) + pow((Acc_rawZ),2)))*rad_to_deg) - Acc_angle_error_x;
 /*---Y---*/
 Acc_angle_y = (atan(-1*(Acc_rawX)/sqrt(pow((Acc_rawY),2) + pow((Acc_rawZ),2)))*rad_to_deg) - Acc_angle_error_y;    
 
 /*Uncoment the rest of the serial prines
 * I only print the Y raw acceleration value */
 //Serial.print("AccX raw: ");
 //Serial.print(Acc_rawX);
 //Serial.print("   |   ");
 //Serial.print("AccY raw: ");
 //Serial.print(Acc_rawY);
 //Serial.print("   |   ");
 Serial.print("AccZ raw: ");
 Serial.print(Acc_rawZ);
 Serial.print("   |   ");
 //Serial.print("AccX angle: ");
 //Serial.print(Acc_angle_x);
 //Serial.print("   |   ");
 Serial.print("AccY angle: ");
 Serial.print(Acc_angle_y);
 Serial.println(" ");



 
}
 






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