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fffffgggg54 / RC_Car

Bellevue College Robotics Club RC Car Project
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Lets not use unobtainium #8

Closed fffffgggg54 closed 1 year ago

fffffgggg54 commented 1 year ago

The BNO055 IMU we were gonna use is no longer produced and prices are increasing. It is feasible to swap to a different IMU at the tradeoff that processing, if needed, will have to be handled by the MCU.

fffffgggg54 commented 1 year ago

We found a more parts on Amazon. Potentially we will reopen this down the line to implement our own sensor, particularly since we can have persistent calibration, whereas with a BNO055 I'm not sure if we can store calibration values on the chip. We should still be cautious about using a part that is out of production, and move forward with the fact that we may have to swap for something else down the line.