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Breakout for HMC5843

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Breakout for HMC5843

By wholder
-  Tue May 12, 2009 3:29 pm #72655
Would love to see a breakout board for this new 3 axis compass:

Digi-Key Part Number 342-1071-ND

Wayne

By noptical
-  Fri May 15, 2009 1:47 am #72840
time to learn to solder QFNs ;)

By emf
-  Fri May 15, 2009 6:24 am #72845
wow, nice find. It's priced less than the HMC1051/1052 combo and quite a bit smaller. I'll have to grab one to play around with.

By theatrus
-  Sat May 16, 2009 1:46 pm #72903
QFN isn't that hard to solder, provided you have some hot air or other indirect heat source around.

add an accelerometer!

By jremington
-  Wed May 27, 2009 10:25 pm #73716
In the June issue of Circuit Cellar, Jeff Bachiochi described a breakout for the HMC5843 and added an ADXL303 accelerometer so that one could take tilt into account. He also added a PIC18F uP, which would not be my choice (AVR, anyone?). Jeff does not offer the board design files.

Although you can buy the prepackaged HMC6343, which has all of the above for $175, I strongly encourage SFE to provide such a board. It would be great for roll-your-own compass experiments, which could include calibration routines for special environments (like a robot platform).

Jim

By m1tch37
-  Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:27 am #76010
+1, would like to see this breakout board.

By Proteus
-  Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:40 am #76503
I'll try to make one myself (but can't promise anything...)
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