Pixhawk 2.4.8 Peripheral Hardware

ArduCopter Copter 4.5
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I wan to make flight measures: temperature+vibration for each engines of my quadricopter

–>first question: can i put 8 peripheral sensor on I2C pixhawk port?

I already use 3 I2C temperature measures with this sensor MLX90614 (log browser and logs are ok)

I have added 4 vib01sensor with an arduino connected with mavlink telemetry (log browser OK but logs are KO) –> see my previous post here (i can use a sd card for the logs)

–>in order to recover vibration or accelertion logs, I want to add 4 I2C accelerometer like the MPU-6050

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–>are they compatible with pixhawk 2.4.8?

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No, Ardupilot doesn’t support I2C IMUs and even then I2C is nowhere near fast enough unless the IMU can report vibration level instead of raw data.

I would recommend getting an H7 based flight controller, it would make interfacing with sensors and doing custom, experimental stuff a lot easier.

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I don’t know about FC 2.4.8 but in principle Ardupilot FW can also use I2C IMU’s.
I do so on my ESP32 testplatform with the MCU6050 module.
Maybe it is not best :upside_down_face:

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Is anything the best with the ESP32 platform :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Price, I think :sweat_smile:

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Or more precisely, bang for the buck

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Less bang for less bucks can be equivalent to more bang for more bucks. If you need bangs.

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The ESP32 is a simple platform to learn and also @thiriot will use this small MPU modules not for flight control but for some other measurements. If it make sence or not.