SCH16T-K10 IMU Breakout Board

Notice: We are currently ordering the PCBs! Please email tengyi.maker@gmail.com if you are interested in pre-ordering.

This is a breakout board for the Murata SCH16T-K10 6DoF IMU (Gyroscope & Accelerometer) optimized for hobbyist prototyping.

Today's IMU market features plenty of (very) good low-cost 9DoF sensor packages with built-in sensor fusion. But if you've used them before, you may have faced environments where heavy magnetic interference makes it near-impossible to estimate yaw/heading accurately.

The SCH16T-K10 costs a pretty penny, but has excellent characteristics (low bias, noise and variation over temperature), rendering it suitable for dead reckoning (yaw/heading estimation without a magnetometer) for short periods of time.

Note that the SCH16T-K10 does not fuse the accelerometer and gyroscope outputs onboard - a separate device will be needed for that; however, results should be decent with simple fusion algorithms and basic calibration.

Sensor Specifications

• ±2000 °/s angular rate measurement range
• ±16 g (SCH16T-K01) acceleration measurement range
• Auxiliary digital accelerometer channel with up to ±26 g dynamic range
• Gyroscope bias instability down to 2 °/h, gyroscope noise density level down to 6 m°/s/√Hz
• Options for output interpolation and decimation, with data ready output, timestamp index and SYNC input functions for clock domain synchronization\
• Operating Temperature Range: −40...110 °C
• Max. Output Data Rate: 11.9kHz
  
• Interface: SPI
  

Board Features

• Holes for 0.1" pitch pin headers to test on breadboards
• JST-SH 8-pin (1mm pitch) connector for secure wiring
• 4 M2.5 mounting holes spaced 20mm * 20mm apart for secure mounting
• Solder jumper pads to edit sensor's SafeSPI target address, allowing multiple of these IMUs to run on the same SPI bus without additional pins
• KiCAD schematic and board design fully open source
• Arduino library with example code to get things up and running quickly

Additional Board Info

• Supply and IO Voltage: 3.3V
• Dimensions (LxWxH): 24mm x 24mm x  4.5mm
  
• PCB thickness: 1.6mm
• Weight: 

Revision History

28/7/25 v1.1 - Board pictured in the listing is a prototype (v1.0), and thus differs slightly from retail stock. Retail board will have ENIG (gold-plated) surface finish to be ROHS-compliant, as well as larger silkscreen text on the back.