MPU6050 orientationMPU6050orientation

A simulation of how the part behaves — not a recording of mine. Bench photos go in the evidence below.

1. 01 · Sensor→

   Gravity is the reference

   An MPU6050 packs a 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer onto one chip. Lying flat, the accelerometer reads about 1 g straight down — gravity is the one thing everything else is measured against.

2. 02 · Angle→

   Tilt is trigonometry

   Tilt the board and gravity's share moves between the axes. Pitch and roll fall out of arctangents of those shares. Use the wrong axis — or the wrong quadrant — and you get confident nonsense like −135°.

3. 03 · Visualization■

   Seeing what it sees

   Numbers scrolling past on a serial monitor don't tell you much. Plotted against time, or drawn as a board that tilts with the real one, they suddenly do.

What I actually did with it

• 01On the bench, and the heart of the motorcycle safety prototype

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