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Pros & Cons
Pros
It is a bit difficult to calibrate but once calibrated it solid. I now have it calibrated and i am getting reliable pitch, roll, yaw, and compass bearing. Worked well with arduino and ros.
Cons
The mpu-9250 has a broken accelerometer and magnetometer. The accelerometer's y value is stuck at one value. The gyroscope registers are always zero, though. Another bad acceleration meter in this one stuck at a solid 2. The device has 6500 chip solde... Read More
Two bad boards suggests to me that they have a bad batch. Not worth the silicon it's printed on.
Highlights
Quality
I couldn't be happier with the quality and amount of time in shipping it took for me to receive this little magnetometer.
I have bought several other hiletgo products over the years and have always been happy with both price and quality.
I ended up going with the sparkfun razor imu for my final product (buy from sparkfun not amazon) for ease of integration (it ha... Read More
Slightly larger package but this product solved the issue with the previous version 9150 that would report zeros across all 3 m... Read More
Shipping
Luckily the edtracker only cost me ~$15 and if i had been willing to wait several weeks for shipping i could have keep the cost... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Worked perfectly out of the box, nice quality solder and pcb
Update: tried it out using the sparkfun example code, although that code required a few corrections and i completely refactored... Read More
Competitiveness
Will continue to be a repeat customer.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 222 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 4 2022.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I ordered 2 sensors one was defective and immediately got a refund
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Slightly larger package but this product solved the issue with the previous version 9150 that would report zeros across all 3 magnetic axis
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Connected it to the 5v out on my raspberry pi and a puff of smoke came out and it appears dead now
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Page claims that it supports up to 6
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Update the seller contact me on 10172018 and sent me another board which arrived 10292018
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
First the ak8963 did not show up on i2cbus
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The mpu i received is model mpu9255 rather than 9250
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its a later model and the only difference was that the who am i register returns 0x73
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