# Learning How To Use SparkFun IMU **URL:** \ **Category:** IMU & Motion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/learning-how-to-use-sparkfun-imu/45675 "2023-05-26T19:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jfhauris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jfhauris](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/jfhauris)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/learning-how-to-use-sparkfun-imu/45675/1 "2023-05-26T19:42:40Z")
Hi, I am an AI Engineer but know very little about hardware. I would like to learn how to use IMUs (either 9DoF IMU Breakout - ICM-20948 (Qwiic) or 9DoF IMU Breakout - ISM330DHCX, MMC5983MA (Qwiic) ). Is there a good project book or video on how to get started with these IMUs? Rob Reynolds posted some videos of controlling orientation of paper airplanes with a hand held IMU. This might be a good project to start but I really don’t know where to learn how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. Eventually I would like to fuse IMU and camera data for Visual-Inertial Odometry, but for now simple projects to get started would be best. Thanks, Jon ---
**Author:** ![TS-Russell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/sparkfun/user_avatar/community.sparkfun.com/ts-russell/32/6092_2.png) [@TS-Russell](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/TS-Russell)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/learning-how-to-use-sparkfun-imu/45675/2 "2023-05-26T20:19:19Z")
Start here [https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2814](https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2814) and here [https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/accel\_gyro\_guide](https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/accel_gyro_guide) and then you can see examples specific to each product by clicking on the ‘documents’ page of any product/item and viewing the ‘hookup guide’ that will demonstrate basic functionality Then poke around for more complex projects using them after, then start to integrate the video aspect 🙂