Month: August 2016

  • How to enable Motion Detection Interrupt on MPU6050.

    The MPU6050 data sheet has a nice “marketing” section, claiming it has a DMP unit, and a couple of useful interrupts, among them a accelerometer event interrupt. However, how to actually use these features is not documented there. And I want to use the Motion Detection Interrupt (so I can put the host MCU to…

  • Fine motor skills?

    I did not know this was possible. The hollow core motors of a Cheerson CX-10 can actually be opened, and a new wire can be soldered to the brushes when the original one broke of. This started as a challenge, me stating it was impossible to open these motors without damaging them beyond repair and…