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@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ The default wiring is depicted below, it can be changed at driver initialization
    cd components
    git clone https://github.com/myles-parfeniuk/esp32_BNO08x.git
    ```
+
+3. Ensure you clean your esp-idf project before rebuilding.  
+   Within esp-idf enabled terminal:
+   ```sh
+    idf.py fullclean
+   ```
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 ### Example