BNO055 Gyroscope and Roborio

[lucasgr]

Hello guys

We intend to use a gyroscope to move the robot straight, I was thinking if the BNO055 is a good idea.
Our team is from Brazil and some materials and devices are or very expensive or unavailable. The BNO055 sensor seems to be a reasonable solution, has anyone used it yet?

I found some links that might be useful:

Gyroscope -> Arduino -> RoboRIO

We’re trying to use a Gyroscope on our robot this year. The gyroscope we’re trying to use is the Adafruit BNO055. So far, the way we’re found to get information from it is with an Arduino Driver that adafruit provides. So naturally we are trying to get the data from the gyroscope with an arduino, and then trying to pipe it to the RoboRIO. We got the arduino to read the Gyroscope no problem. But now we’re trying to get the arduino to pipe the data to the RoboRIO via the I2C bus. We threw some co…

BST_BNO055_DS000_12.pdf

https://github.com/jcorcoran/BNO055_FRC

Thanks!

[auscompgeek]

My team has used the BNO055 in the past, and found it fairly reliable.

[otherguy]

I’m the author of the git project you linked to. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but should still work with minimal effort.

If you have specific questions I may be able to help out. Note that there is a version of the board from adafruit, and another from digikey that’s linked to in the repo. Not sure if one source is easier to use than the other in Brazil. Both boards will work with the repo code if you follow the setup instructions.

Feel free to email me any questions.