Adafruit LSM6DSOX & LIS3MDL 9 DoF IMU Breakout Board

The LSM6DSOX has flexible data rates and ranges. For the accelerometer: ±2/±4/±8/±16g at 1.6Hz to 6.7KHz update rate. For the gyroscope: ±125/±250/±500/±1000/±2000dps at 12.5Hz to 6.7KHz. The device also includes built-in tap detection, activity detection, pedometer/step counter, and a programmable finite state machine/machine learning core that can perform some basic gesture recognition. The breakout board also includes a LIS3MDL 3-axis magnetometer that can sense where the strongest magnetic force is coming from, generally used to detect magnetic north. The three triple-axis sensors add up to 9 degrees of freedom, by combining this data, the user can orient the board.

These sensors are placed on a compact breakout board with voltage regulation and level-shifted inputs. That allows the user to be able to use them with 3V or 5V power/logic devices. Only the I²C interface is exposed and some interrupt pins from each chip. The breakout comes fully assembled and tested, with some extra headers so the user can use it on a breadboard. Four mounting holes make for a secure connection. Since it has I²C, the user can easily connect it up with two data wires plus power and ground. The SparkFun qwiic compatible STEMMA QT connectors have been included for the I2C bus, so there is no need to solder. The user can wire up to a favorite microcontroller like the STM32F405 Feather using a STEMMA QT adapter cable to get 6-DoF data right away.

The user can change the I²C addresses on the back using the solder jumpers, to have two of these sensor boards on one bus. Some drivers and examples have been created for the user. Adafruit wrote libraries to help the user get these sensors integrated for Arduino/C++. This library covers the accel/gyro and the magnetometer. For advanced Arduino usage, ST has a fully-featured library that includes extras such as FIFO management and tap detection for the LSM6DSOX and for the LIS3MDL magnetometer.