Cheapist/easiest one axis gyro?

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I’m going to be working with a (extremely-budget-sensitive) sister team that is making their first foray into swerve.

I’m pretty sure that they have no IMUs in house. What’s the cheapest 1 axis gyro available that can easily interface to the roboRIO? I’m not above cobbling something from Adafruit/Pololu/Sparkfun, but hate to have to fiddle with the wiring (and possibly writing my own driver)…

If the ADXRS450 or ADIS16470 boards were still available, they would be ideal, but alas. I can’t find anything in our old parts bin that would have come in an old KOP…

We can get by without for starters (just no field-relative driving)…

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If there’s any teams locally that would give you an adxrs450 that’s what I would reccomend, some teams just have piles of them

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There is a built in one in the Roborio I don’t think it can keep up with swerve very well though.

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Accelerometer, yes. No gyro in roboRIO.

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good idea. email sent.

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You can also still get ADXRS450s and ADIS16470s through FIRSTChoice (which is open right now) if you don’t need something right away.

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