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Re: Gyro/Acceler. connections

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Originally Posted by fiferdc View Post
The gyro has a three pin connection (ground, power, signal), so how would it connect to the I2C, which has four connections?
There has been some confusion in the answers given. People talking about I2C and SPI are really referring about the accelerometer board, even though they might have slipped up and called it a gyro. The yaw rate sensor ("gyro") board provides a pair of analog outputs.

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We have it connected to the analog breakout, but we're having problems getting a reading, so I'm not sure if that is due to a bad connection, or just a programming problem.
I don't know what you mean by "problems" here. What kind of reading do you get, and what are you expecting?

Do you see an appropriate battery voltage display on the Driver Station?