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[edsmith75]

Greetings! I am new to the forum and just wanted to throw this question out there. I would like to connect a 10DOF IMU to an Arduino board that is connecting to servos but don’t know what boards are the most compatible. Any suggestions?

[Mee_n_Mac]

What are you looking to do with the IMU ? How many servos ? Do need any other I/O ?

[edsmith75]

I would like to use the IMU as a motion controller to control the position of at least four servos.

[Mee_n_Mac]

It's claimed that even an Uno can control up to 12 servos with only minimal resource usage. Then again I note a Mega2560 is what's used for the latest 9 DOF Ardupilots. I didn't think there was much (if any) of a computational capacity difference btw the two. The Mega just has more built-in peripherals and memory. Either should work is my GUESS, your choice.

[edsmith75]

Do you know of any code that has already been written to do this? Or maybe enough code to get started? Thanks for your help.

[Mee_n_Mac]

To do this ? What's this ? I might guess you mean something like (perhaps w/o the wireless) this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg9fjr_A4ts

Google IMU, robotic arm, controller or the like. I'm sure there's dozens of open source projects w/code for you to peruse.