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Permalink Reply by JesseJay on February 10, 2012 at 8:51am

I'm sure it can.    You would use the serial port to communicate between the two.   As far as guides/manuals... I don't know of anything available at all for the V3.    I plan on setting up a wiki with information when I get some time.  I will be doing the same thing of doing ArduIMU->Arduino soon.

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Permalink Reply by Bim on February 10, 2012 at 10:57am

Thank you for your reply, are there any output examples that include the magnetometer by any chance?

For example in the screenshot here: http://code.google.com/p/ardu-imu/wiki/Demo the magnetometer chart is empty(First picture, bottom left part).

Also, is it viable to use the ArduIMU V3 without a GPS module?

From the wiki page:

If you don't connect a GPS module, the IMU will still work but Yaw data will be unreliable since there is no way to correct for drift in the Yaw gyro.

Which I find rather strange since it has a 3 axis Gyro, 3 axis accelerometer and a 3 axis magnetometer(Which is enough to correct drift on all angles as far as I understand).

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Permalink Reply by JesseJay on February 14, 2012 at 1:02am

You can enable/output magnetometer... 

#define PRINT_MAGNETOMETER 1     //Will print Magnetometer data (if magnetometer is enabled)

I see the following comment in ArduIMU 1.9 code.  

/* Support for optional magnetometer (1 enabled, 0 dissabled) */
#define USE_MAGNETOMETER 1 // use 1 if you want to make yaw gyro drift corrections using the optional magnetometer   

So, I think that comment might be wrong.

JesseJay

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