Monday, August 13, 2012

Raspberry Pi meets Invensense MP9150 (Thesis)

I've been playing with the Raspberry Pi for a couple of months now, and I must say it's a wonderfull piece of equipment. The ARM processor is very powerfull, and Debian is a great OS. I've been using gcc to compile my pprograms, which I have some experiemce in. The first stock Debian image didn't have I2C support, and it was quite a chore to compile the kernel. With the new Raspbian distro, I2C should be included, aswell as hardware FPU support. I've not started using it, but probably will soon.

I've managed to port my DCM code to gcc, and it's running well. I'm no longer using my sensor stack, but a development board for the new Invensense MP9150. That chip is basically an MP6150 gyro and accelerometer combo with a magnetometer on the side. I've not started using the magnetometer, but will soon. I'm currently working on a roll/pitch platform that can simulate motion. Will post more about that very soon...