How to read gyroscope data with arduino?

Question

hi fellows, i got one of these gyros http://www.xheli.com/wag0diadpiin.html

it has 6 pins 3,3 im afraid i might harm the device so i wanted to ask here. how should i connect it to arduino. and what code i should use?

Answer 1

I have salvaged one of these off my old walkera helicopter and want to do the same thing. If no one has posted help here, I will try to sort this out and post another reply.

For what it's worth, the female 3 pin connector connects to a walkera brushed speed controller (which in turn connects to 6-15V+ battery power). The other three pins connected to the main circuit that had radio control and servo outputs. This connector must have the pin to sample. I am speculating, but I would guess that it would probably work best to connect it to Int0 or Int1 on the arduino, instead of trying to poll it.

I would guess that two axis values might come from the chip, but the problem is knowing how the data encoded/muxed on the single output pin.

If I find out more, I will post an update. Good luck.