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 LSM9DS1 accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope.
5# Will print the acceleration, magnetometer, and gyroscope values every second.
6import time
7import board
8import adafruit_lsm9ds1
9
10# Create sensor object, communicating over the board's default I2C bus
11i2c = board.I2C() # uses board.SCL and board.SDA
12# i2c = board.STEMMA_I2C() # For using the built-in STEMMA QT connector on a microcontroller
13sensor = adafruit_lsm9ds1.LSM9DS1_I2C(i2c)
14
15# SPI connection:
16# from digitalio import DigitalInOut, Direction
17# spi = board.SPI()
18# csag = DigitalInOut(board.D5)
19# csag.direction = Direction.OUTPUT
20# csag.value = True
21# csm = DigitalInOut(board.D6)
22# csm.direction = Direction.OUTPUT
23# csm.value = True
24# sensor = adafruit_lsm9ds1.LSM9DS1_SPI(spi, csag, csm)
25
26# Main loop will read the acceleration, magnetometer, gyroscope, Temperature
27# values every second and print them out.
28while True:
29 # Read acceleration, magnetometer, gyroscope, temperature.
30 accel_x, accel_y, accel_z = sensor.acceleration
31 mag_x, mag_y, mag_z = sensor.magnetic
32 gyro_x, gyro_y, gyro_z = sensor.gyro
33 temp = sensor.temperature
34 # Print values.
35 print(
36 "Acceleration (m/s^2): ({0:0.3f},{1:0.3f},{2:0.3f})".format(
37 accel_x, accel_y, accel_z
38 )
39 )
40 print(
41 "Magnetometer (gauss): ({0:0.3f},{1:0.3f},{2:0.3f})".format(mag_x, mag_y, mag_z)
42 )
43 print(
44 "Gyroscope (rad/sec): ({0:0.3f},{1:0.3f},{2:0.3f})".format(
45 gyro_x, gyro_y, gyro_z
46 )
47 )
48 print("Temperature: {0:0.3f}C".format(temp))
49 # Delay for a second.
50 time.sleep(1.0)