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Adafruit suggests using the Mu editor to edit your code and have an interactive REPL in CircuitPython. You can learn about Mu and installation in this tutorial.
We're using the adafruit_lsm9ds0
library for CircuitPython to easily read the accelerometer.
You can learn about installing the adafruit_lsm9ds0
library in the CircuitPython Essentials Guide on CircuitPlayground Libraries. It is easiest to install the whole library package.
At this point the feather now has an accelerometer attached to it via I2C, just like in any other situation. Indeed, just like the CPX (other than that the CPX uses a LIS3DH).
As a demo, I hooked up a servo and controlled it using the accelerometer. The result is that the servo horn indicates the direction and magnitude of the Crickit's tilt.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Dave Astels for Adafruit Industries # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT import time import busio import board from adafruit_seesaw.seesaw import Seesaw from adafruit_seesaw.pwmout import PWMOut from adafruit_motor import servo import adafruit_lsm9ds0 # Setup hardware i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA) sensor = adafruit_lsm9ds0.LSM9DS0_I2C(i2c) seesaw = Seesaw(i2c) # Create servo objects pwm1 = PWMOut(seesaw, 17) pwm1.frequency = 50 servo1 = servo.Servo(pwm1, min_pulse=500, max_pulse=2500) # Center the servo servo1.angle = 90 while True: # Read the accel x, y, z = sensor.acceleration # Clip the value if y < -10: y = -10 if y > 10: y = 10 # print(((y / 10) + 1) * 90) # Set the angle servo1.angle = ((-y / 10) + 1) * 90 time.sleep(0.1)
The code simply reads the accelerometer and computes the servo angle based on the Y value it read. Note that I was using the Crickit build of CircuitPython 3.0.0rc0 which bundles the Crickit support libraries into the runtime to save RAM.
If you use a different Flora accelerometer breakout, change the import
and the sensor creation line to reflect the library for that sensor.
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