3-Axis IMU working with a Papilio One

Hey everyone! Here is a new exciting project that has just been realized by Papilio user Laurent Siou, he has successfully made a 3-Axis IMU with a Papilio One 250k board!!

Laurent’s goal was to realize an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) for a camera and take in-flight stabilized videos. His particular design is comprised of :
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• Papilio One 250K board
• ITG-3200 eval board
• BMA180 accelerometer
• HMC5883L magnetometer

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And to make all that work Laurent used the AVR8 core 1.6.0 with Arduino IDE and he modified the soft core to add:

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• 3-axis servo control IP adapted from timer section
• I2C IP adapted from Generic WB hard Master I2C
• Some VHDL cleanup and glue

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Watch this video below to have a look at the end result and hopefully you will find this project as cool as I do!!

Feel free to discuss in the comments thread.

Follow the break to watch another quick demonstration video