Hi all,
I'm currently working on a project using the Sparkfun MPU6050 accelerometer and gyroscope to create a MIDI controller in the form of a glove that changes parameters via gesture recognition. As a novice with Arduino, I have recently been working from the breadboard which has been all working but I have just soldered my sensor to a stripboard and connected it to the arduino. The connections made are displayed below.
VDD = 3.3V
GND = GND
INT = 2
FSYNC = unconnected
SCL = A5
SDA = A4
VIO = 3.3V
CLK = unconnected
ASCL = unconnected
ASDA = unconnected
Everything up until the soldering has been fine and then it seems that the I2C devices weren't being initialised successfully. In the serial monitor when I tried reviewing my data, the only message I got was "Initializing I2C devices" and nothing else. So I then tried desoldering a the connections to 3.3V and tried 5V as I considered that maybe there wasn't enough current generated to power the chip, and after reading from various forums, the MPU6050 has a 3.3voltage limiter so I felt that because of this and various other reasons, it was acceptable to power it through the 5V output on the arduino. However I still managed to get the same result.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be? Or have I definitely destroyed my sensor?