Trouble with MPU 6050 Code

I might be 71 years old, but I still enjoy learning. That's why I enjoy learning from Mr. Bill. He's an amazing and knowlageable teacher. If you talk to him, tell him that I personaly thanked him for teaching me. After all as my electronic professor Dr. Hall said that the ocean of knowlage is so vast that you will never reach the shore.

@azflyer "I might be 71 years old, but I still enjoy learning. That's why I enjoy learning from Mr. Bill. He's an amazing and knowlageable teacher. If you talk to him, tell him that I personaly thanked him for teaching me. After all as my electronic professor Dr. Hall said that the ocean of knowlage is so vast that you will never reach the shore."

Indeed, truer words have not been spoken...my experience as well.. after 49 years, still learning things I did not know, or forgotten!...lol

regards,

LouisR

@azflyer I have still not wrapped my head around how that postage stamp sized electronic circuit board can do all those things.  I hope you will share on the forum (The Show and Tell sub forum in the Project Corner forum) when you get to the point of building something. I have a bit of an ulterior motive, I am curious about this sensor but have too many interests so when I can I like to watch andor piggy back on the work of others to save time.

I look forward to seeing you post your work at some future time hopefully in Show and Tell but maybe in Help Wanted first.

Best

Hi ALL.  Did anyone find an easy solution to this ?  Namely that the two zip files (mpu-6050-level-+DroneBot-Workshop.zip and MPU6050.zip) provided by the Dronebot Workshop RESOURCES footnote at the bottom of Bills article links to Jeff Rowberg’s I2C Dev Library – The I2C development library for Arduino, by Jeff Rowberg AND  Jeff Rowberg’s MPU-6050 Library – The MPU-6050 library for Arduino, by Jeff Rowberg DO NOT WORK.

The I2C Dev library contains NO I2C library - only a 3k zipped .INO file.

The MPU-6050 library does contain a 63k zipped file with the MPU6050 library and two example sketches which install correctly.

By going directly to Jeff Rowbergs Github page at: https://github.com/jrowberg/i2cdevlib.git

I can download the appropriate I2C library BUT it is not available as a zip file so WILL NOT INSTALL.

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I can download the appropriate I2C library BUT it is not available as a zip file so WILL NOT INSTALL.

Zip files are also available on Github:

But... there is nothing cosmic about a zip library.  Both Arduino IDE (1.8.x and 2.x) simply unzip them into the libraries folder.  If you create a sub-folder and drop the source code into it, restart your IDE, you will have access to that library.  Here is one of my libraries that I have not bothered to zip up, I simply have it hanging off the libraries folder.  Note - the sub folder doesn't even have to have the same name as the library, but it is good practice.

Inq