The Bluefruit Connect app allows you to access the accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscopic and quaternion movement information from your mobile device. This demo will show you how to access that data and print it to the serial console.
Save the following as code.py on your CIRCUITPY
drive and then connect to the board using the Bluefruit LE Connect app. Then, connect to the serial console.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Kattni Rembor for Adafruit Industries # # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT from adafruit_ble import BLERadio from adafruit_ble.advertising.standard import ProvideServicesAdvertisement from adafruit_ble.services.nordic import UARTService from adafruit_bluefruit_connect.packet import Packet from adafruit_bluefruit_connect.accelerometer_packet import AccelerometerPacket from adafruit_bluefruit_connect.magnetometer_packet import MagnetometerPacket from adafruit_bluefruit_connect.gyro_packet import GyroPacket from adafruit_bluefruit_connect.quaternion_packet import QuaternionPacket ble = BLERadio() uart = UARTService() advertisement = ProvideServicesAdvertisement(uart) while True: ble.start_advertising(advertisement) while not ble.connected: pass # Now we're connected while ble.connected: if uart.in_waiting: packet = Packet.from_stream(uart) if isinstance(packet, AccelerometerPacket): print("Acceleration:", packet.x, packet.y, packet.z) if isinstance(packet, MagnetometerPacket): print("Magnetometer:", packet.x, packet.y, packet.z) if isinstance(packet, GyroPacket): print("Gyro:", packet.x, packet.y, packet.z) if isinstance(packet, QuaternionPacket): print("Quaternion:", packet.x, packet.y, packet.z) # If we got here, we lost the connection. Go up to the top and start # advertising again and waiting for a connection.
Connect to your board using the Bluefruit LE Connect application and navigate to the controller page. Enable the following streams: Quaternion, Accelerometer, Gyro, Magnetometer.
Let's take a look at the code.
First we import the necessary libraries and instantiate the UART server.
Inside the loop, we first begin advertising.
Once connected, the board begins listening for packets. In the event that an accelerometer, magnetometer, gyro or quaternion packet is received, it prints a message to the serial console.
That's all there is to accessing acceleration, magnetometer, gyro and quaternion data from your mobile using the Bluefruit LE Connect app and CircuitPython!
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