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I had the same question and solved the problem for my application, although I have not tested others. I wanted to access the ypr functions from the DMP, but wanted to orient the breakout board so the Y-axis was vertical. I only cared about pitch and roll in this new configuration. When you reorient the board, the Y-axis becomes the vertical, and the Z-axis becomes equitorial, in effect swapping roles. The X-axis stays in the same plane (albeit 90 degrees out of the old position). By looking at MPU6050_6Axis_MotionApps20.h file from Jeff Rowland, I found where the GetYawPitchRoll function was defined. I simply swapped all instances of y and z in these three definitions and it worked well for pitch and roll. I saw some discontinuity in the yaw motion, but since I was not interested in it, I did not investigate further. Sample code is below. Old version: uint8_t MPU6050::dmpGetYawPitchRoll(float *data, Quaternion *q, VectorFloat *gravity) { // yaw: (about Z axis) data[0] = atan2(2*q -> x*q -> y - 2*q -> w*q -> z, 2*q -> w*q -> w + 2*q -> x*q -> x - 1); // pitch: (nose up/down, about Y axis) data[1] = atan(gravity -> x / sqrt(gravity -> y*gravity -> y + gravity -> z*gravity -> z)); // roll: (tilt left/right, about X axis) data[2] = atan(gravity -> y / sqrt(gravity -> x*gravity -> x + gravity -> z*gravity -> z)); return 0; } New version: uint8_t MPU6050::dmpGetYawPitchRollOnEnd(float *data, Quaternion *q, VectorFloat *gravity) { // yaw: (about Y axis) data[0] = atan2(2*q -> x*q -> z - 2*q -> w*q -> y, 2*q -> w*q -> w + 2*q -> x*q -> x - 1); // pitch: (nose up/down, about Z axis) data[1] = atan(gravity -> x / sqrt(gravity -> z*gravity -> z + gravity -> y*gravity -> y)); // roll: (tilt left/right, about X axis) data[2] = atan(gravity -> z / sqrt(gravity -> x*gravity -> x + gravity -> y*gravity -> y)); return 0; } I hope this helps in part with your problems. The sensor board calibration was done in the usual fashion before swapping the axes in code, but the calibrations held up well.

I downloaded the calibration sketch today, 5-Mar-2016, v1.1, and used it to calibrate a new MPU6050 breakout board using an Arduino Uno. The sketch worked perfectly. Thank you, luisrodenas, for the development and updates.