Connecting UM7 inertial measurement unit through serial on python

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I am trying to connect the UM7 IMU to computer through serial, so I can further track motions on blender. Unfortunately, my knowledge of python is rather shallow. I am using pyserial, connecting to COM9 with default baudrate, etc and I have problems understanding what I get in result and how to decode it. So it looks as:

import serial ser=serial.Serial(8)
ser.read(10)

I get a feed that looks like b'\x18\xc8\xe0\x08/\x88(\x88(\xdd' My first thought was that the feed is a hexadecimal but then again there are a lot of elements like additionals signs '?-+/' etc and letters that dont seem to be a part of a hex.

Could you explain me how to decode it?

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The UM7 IMU uses a binary protocol to efficiently transfer the data over the serial line.

I have just recently forked a project on github that does just that:

https://github.com/buxit/um7