Using 5-6 Accelerometers/gyroscopes at once?

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Hi,

I plan on using 5 Invensense MPU-6500 Accelerometer/gyros and 1 MPU-9250 Accelerometer/gyro/magnetometer in my project, and was just wondering what the feasibility of doing this with one arduino will be, first of all can any arduino(mega, due etc.) support this many sensors? Secondly i'd be using them for location tracking not just detecting movement, so would need considerable processing, as far as I am aware this probably wont be possible on the arduino itself and will require the use of matlab etc., could anyone confirm this, if it is possible on the arduino itself that would be preferable.

cheers.

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First figure out how to do location tracking with one such IMU. That is the hard part.

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I believe there are all I2C devices, possibly with an address modifier so you may be able to connect them to one I2C bus and then switch the address modifiers to bring the desired one to the right address.

You would have to check whether they have built in pullups, if so you may wish to remove some.

That said as @jremington says, figuring out what you are going to do with the data is going to be the hard part so try one first...