Simple test¶
Ensure your device works with this simple test.
1# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 ladyada for Adafruit Industries
2# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
3
4# Simple demo of the FXOS8700 accelerometer and magnetometer.
5# Will print the acceleration and magnetometer values every second.
6import time
7import board
8import adafruit_fxos8700
9
10
11# Create sensor object, communicating over the board's default I2C bus
12i2c = board.I2C() # uses board.SCL and board.SDA
13sensor = adafruit_fxos8700.FXOS8700(i2c)
14# Optionally create the sensor with a different accelerometer range (the
15# default is 2G, but you can use 4G or 8G values):
16# sensor = adafruit_fxos8700.FXOS8700(i2c, accel_range=adafruit_fxos8700.ACCEL_RANGE_4G)
17# sensor = adafruit_fxos8700.FXOS8700(i2c, accel_range=adafruit_fxos8700.ACCEL_RANGE_8G)
18
19# Main loop will read the acceleration and magnetometer values every second
20# and print them out.
21while True:
22 # Read acceleration & magnetometer.
23 accel_x, accel_y, accel_z = sensor.accelerometer
24 mag_x, mag_y, mag_z = sensor.magnetometer
25 # Print values.
26 print(
27 "Acceleration (m/s^2): ({0:0.3f}, {1:0.3f}, {2:0.3f})".format(
28 accel_x, accel_y, accel_z
29 )
30 )
31 print(
32 "Magnetometer (uTesla): ({0:0.3f}, {1:0.3f}, {2:0.3f})".format(
33 mag_x, mag_y, mag_z
34 )
35 )
36 # Delay for a second.
37 time.sleep(1.0)