According to Pete: IMU 101

A little shaky on IMU selection? This might smooth it out for you.

Greetings, and thank you for stopping by to check out ATP!

Today's episode idea comes from Wes in Tech Support. Wes told me that sometimes people have difficulty wrapping their heads around IMU selection: what it will and won't do, what the numbers mean, how you talk to it and what you have to bring to the game. So this video is for those folks. I'll go through some of the available parts, talk about specs you should look at and understand, discuss the interfaces and what you're going to talk to them with, and by the end you'll hopefully have a good enough knowledge base that you can make a selection with a reduced level of anxiety. Cool? Let's rock this.

And for extra credit, go read some stuff! It's only a couple of things, but they'll keep you really busy.

Intertial Measurement Unit

Quaternions