Guide by Michael; PiicoDev 3-Axis Accelerometer LIS3DH - Getting Started Guide

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Loving the new unified guide format to match the unified python libraries. Super handy if you might be prototyping on one device before switching to another.

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Hi @Michael
A suggestion for the shake demo code to make the output more ‘visible’

The original loop

while True:
    if motion.shake(threshold=15):
        print("shaken!")
    else:
        print("")
    # shake() is blocking, so can be used instead of sleep_ms() to delay a loop.

my updated loop

while True:
    if motion.shake(threshold=15):
        print("shaken!")
    else:
        print(".", end="")
    # shake() is blocking, so can be used instead of sleep_ms() to delay a loop.

and some sample output

...............shaken!
.......shaken!
.........shaken!
....................................shaken!
..shaken!

cheers
Murray

p.s. been playing with new toys from the Borg article credit note - thanks

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Hi Murray,

It’s not the conventional scroll most people are used to seeing from a terminal window, but I like it!
I’ll probably use your format in my own projects even if it doesn’t become the PiicoDev example standard.
Glad to hear there’s already a new project in the works after the Borg cube, keen to see what you make next.

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Hi Trent,

I added that bit because with the scrolling, and practicing to get the right amount of ‘shake’ I wasn’t sure what was happening. Fast scrolling ‘blank’ lines and trying to catch a activity message drove me slightly bats…t :bat: I don’t mind seeing ‘null report’ mesages - it at least lets me know that the process is doing something!

Murray

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