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