adxl345spi-py

Reading data from the ADXL345 accelerometer over SPI on a raspberry pi w/ python. Essentially a python port of part of this project.

Setup

First install the pigpio library.

wget abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpio.zip
unzip pigpio.zip
cd PIGPIO
make -j4
make install

Then clone this library and install with python setup.py install.

Usage

Start the pigpiod daemon with sudo pigpiod. Then, you can use the library like this:

from adxl345 import adxl345
adxl = adxl345.ADXL345(sample_rate=100)
adxl.read_one()
adxl.close()