I have one of these MPU-6050 accelerometer/gyrometer. Works great but what's the best way to use it wirelessly? i.e. put the chip in a glove or small housing and wirelessly send the readings to the arduino?
I was looking at bluetooth modules for arduino but not quite sure if that's the right approach or even if the gyro sensor (which uses I2C) can send data to arduino via bluetooth (which uses serial afaik).
Thanks for any help.
You would need a bluetooth module capable of talking I2C and... being able to meet the specific needs of the MPU-6050 to connect it directly to a bluetooth-module. Since the sensor is just one of many I2C-chips, there's very little chance of finding such a dedicated bluetooth-module.
It may... be possible to rewrite the firmware of a bluetoothmodule, making it capable of communicating with the sensor, but that's probably a very long road to success as well.
Easiest is probably to have an arduino (Arduino mini would nicely fit a glove) read the sensor and send the data to a bluetooth-module. A second arduino could indeed be equipped with a bluetooth-module to act upon the data received.
Keep in mind one of the BT-modules has to be configured as master and the other one as slave. Master-modules can often be configured as slaves as well, but not all Slave modules have the possibility to configure 'm as masters, buying 2 slave-modules would there for not work.
The modules can cover about 30ft distance which may be enough for your project, if not you'll need use other type of wireless modules.