Datasheet

You'll need to install the Adafruit_Blinka library that provides the CircuitPython support in Python. This may also require

enabling I2C on your platform and verifying you are running Python 3. Since each platform is a little different, and Linux

changes often, please visit the CircuitPython on Linux guide to get your computer ready (https://adafru.it/BSN)!

Once that's done, from your command line run the following command:

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-l3gd20

If your default Python is version 3 you may need to run 'pip' instead. Just make sure you aren't trying to use

CircuitPython on Python 2.x, it isn't supported!

CircuitPython & Python Usage

To demonstrate the usage of the sensor we'll initialize it and read the angular momentum values from the board's

Python REPL.

If you're using an I2C connection run the following code to import the necessary modules and initialize the I2C

connection with the sensor:

Or if you're using a SPI connection run this code instead to setup the SPI connection and sensor:

Now you're ready to read values from the sensor using any of these properties:

gyro - The x, y, z angular momentum tuple floats, rescaled appropriately for range selected.

For example to print angular momentum:

That's all there is to using the L3GD20 sensor with CircuitPython!

Full Example Code

import time

import board

import busio

import adafruit_l3gd20

I2C = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)

SENSOR = adafruit_l3gd20.L3GD20_I2C(I2C)

import time

import board

import busio

import digitalio

import adafruit_l3gd20

CS = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D5)

SPIB = busio.SPI(board.SCK, board.MOSI, board.MISO)

SENSOR = adafruit_l3gd20.L3GD20_SPI(SPIB, CS)

print('Angular momentum (rad/s): {}'.format(SENSOR.gyro))