Well, this happened already a couple of weeks ago, but now you can buy the MPU-6050, and other chips from InvenSense, from Digi-Key. The price is roughly $10 per chip if you don’t buy them in the thousands. Not bad at all. (Even though you can still buy a breakout board for less from China.)
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Because I need to document it somehow :)
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