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accelerometer / gyro programming - jgullickson - 09-20-2020
I'm experimenting with writing some programs that use the accelerometer & gyro and I'm wondering if anyone here knows if there are "Unix-y" interfaces for these devices (/dev/something) or if they need to be accessed via some other mechanism like the SPI bus, etc.?
The programs I'm writing are in C but if you have an example in another language I might be able to translate.
Thank-you!
Jason
RE: accelerometer / gyro programming - wibble - 09-21-2020
They have kernel drivers and "Unix-y" interfaces - see for example:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone)#Sensors
Note that the device number might not be consistent - on mobian the mpu6050 is on iio:device2