Simple test
Ensure your device works with this simple test.
examples/fxos8700_simpletest.py
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
7
8import board
9
10import adafruit_fxos8700
11
12# Create sensor object, communicating over the board's default I2C bus
13i2c = board.I2C() # uses board.SCL and board.SDA
14# i2c = board.STEMMA_I2C() # For using the built-in STEMMA QT connector on a microcontroller
15sensor = adafruit_fxos8700.FXOS8700(i2c)
16# Optionally create the sensor with a different accelerometer range (the
17# default is 2G, but you can use 4G or 8G values):
18# sensor = adafruit_fxos8700.FXOS8700(i2c, accel_range=adafruit_fxos8700.ACCEL_RANGE_4G)
19# sensor = adafruit_fxos8700.FXOS8700(i2c, accel_range=adafruit_fxos8700.ACCEL_RANGE_8G)
20
21# Main loop will read the acceleration and magnetometer values every second
22# and print them out.
23while True:
24 # Read acceleration & magnetometer.
25 accel_x, accel_y, accel_z = sensor.accelerometer
26 mag_x, mag_y, mag_z = sensor.magnetometer
27 # Print values.
28 print(f"Acceleration (m/s^2): ({accel_x:0.3f}, {accel_y:0.3f}, {accel_z:0.3f})")
29 print(f"Magnetometer (uTesla): ({mag_x:0.3f}, {mag_y:0.3f}, {mag_z:0.3f})")
30 # Delay for a second.
31 time.sleep(1.0)