arduino read accelerometer data wire library

The MPU-6050 is a device that combines a 3-axis gyroscope, a 3-axis accelerometer, and an embedded temperature sensor.

ESP8266 Board (or any other board with I2C).

Note: If you want to use any board that you cannot see in the Arduino IDE you should visit the next tutorial ( link). You only have to install the ‘ Wire.h‘ library if you don’t have it installed, you can see this tutorial ( link) to help you install the library. Thus, it is more practical and easier to use and you don’t need to add specific libraries to your project. In this tutorial I try to abstract myself from most of the libraries that are commonly used for this sensor, using just the I2C communication library. The usability of this sensor is very dynamic because there are many libraries for its use. If you want to use a different board you can view the explanation to do this in the Electrical Circuit section in this tutorial.

It is named MPU-6050 or GY-521 and you can use this sensor with any board that has the I2C communication protocol (Arduino, Raspberry PI, ESP32….), in this case, I use the ESP8266 NodeMCU board. Here you can learn how to read Acceleration, Rotation, and Temperature through just one sensor. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to use MPU-6050 Gyroscope/Accelerometer.

Arduino read accelerometer data wire library