Comment by Reto on December 4, 2009 at 11:05am

Awesome board for the price if there's a way to interface it through any other interface than the USB/HID. I just inquired about such possibility at pnicorp and await some answers.

Comment by Angus Peart on December 4, 2009 at 2:00pm

Don't want to sound like a broken record, but it's not 9DOF, it's only 6DOF, unless you found some more dimensions I wasn't aware of? :)
Correct terminology would be 9DOM.

Don't the Wii controllers already do this, hand held controller stuff, for less?

Comment by Roy Brewer on December 4, 2009 at 2:43pm

Well, according to String Theory there are at least 10 dimensions :-)

But, I agree, there aren't 9 Degrees of Freedom here. What does "DOM" stand for?

The Wii controllers don't have 3 axis magnetometers. They also don't output quaternions (although its not completely clear if the device outputs quaternions of if the PC based interface software puts out the quaternions)

- Roy

Comment by Angus Peart on December 4, 2009 at 4:56pm

As far as I know, in this context DOM stands for "Degrees Of Measurement".

Comment by Roberto Hawkowski on December 4, 2009 at 5:18pm

In addition to its USB interface, I wish they (PNI Corp) would provide this gadget (SpacePoint™) with a serial RS232 and/or I2C and/or SPI interface so that we can use it with Arduino or any other low-end processors.

Developer Comment by William Premerlani on December 4, 2009 at 5:33pm

Basically, it looks aweswome. Having the magnetometers could be a real plus.

However, from the information on their website and from the video, it does not look like they had UAV applications in mind. For example, I doubt they are correcting the accelerometer signals for centrifugal effects.

And, I would wonder how resistant the gyros and accelerometers are to vibration.

I would also wonder how far away you would have to keep the magnetometers from magnetic interference, such as from electric motors.

Still, it looks like it would not be too hard for them to adapt it for UAV applications. Someone should point it out to them.

Bill

Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on December 4, 2009 at 7:36pm

Yes, I'm somewhat familiar with this company. It's designed for what it says: handheld controllers. It is not optimized for inertial applications and cannot correct for centrifugal effects. So no UAV use.

Moderator Comment by Paul Mather on December 4, 2009 at 11:07pm

This video is totally awesome.

See here, it says R/C as one possible use:
http://www.pnicorp.com/products/application/navigation

Comment by Angus Peart on December 5, 2009 at 4:23am

Their actual chip products like the MS2100 are used in R/C applications, but I doubt this "SpacePoint" is designed to be.

Comment by Reto on December 8, 2009 at 12:43pm

The questions I passed on to PniCorp was transmitted to their dev team as well as a link to this post here. Maybe they'll give us some details directly here.

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