Gyro Example Simple-Nothing happen

[papa-shrek]

After including all the stuff and adding the files, for some reason when I upload it, nothing happens. It says "Initialize MPU6050" Then nothing.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

[stuartblair]

For embedded software, it's always worth starting with the physical connections.

• If your MPU6050 board has an led, check that it's lit to indicate there's power to it.
• Make sure you either have a voltage regulator on the board or are supplying it 3.3v rather than 5v
• Ensure you've soldered all the header pins to the breakout board and that they're good connections
• Ensure you've got solid dupont connectors from your header pins back to your microcontroller
• Ensure you've got the i2c clock and data pins wired to the right pins on your microcontroller
• If your sketch is registering an interrupt to tell the microcontroller when it needs to read a register, make sure you've wired up the interrupt header pin to the right pin on your microcontroller.

Lastly, (and I realize this may come as little comfort) I found that from my bag of 12 MPU6050 breakout boards, only a little over half of them worked once I'd soldered the header pins on them and run the same sketch on it. I suppose that's why they were only $12 for 10. Be prepared to play the numbers game with this.