adxl345_driver2

adxl345_driver2

This is a hardware driver for ADXL345 and ADXL346 type 3-Axis Digital Accelerometers written in Rust using embedded-hal I2c and Spi traits. That means it runs on all hardware layers that implement the embedded-hal traits.

Although the name says adxl345 the driver should also work with the ADXL346 device as well since the only difference between them is the physical packaging and not the internal workings.

This crate is a fork of the adxl345_driver crate. This crate still is API compatible with the original adxl345_driver crate.

Getting Started

You will need to have a recent version of Rust installed.

This crate supports all hardware abstraction layers that implement the embedded-hal I2c and Spi traits. That includes the [rppal] driver for the Raspberry Pi. But it is not restricted to that platform. Platforms that are known to work correctly are the Raspberry Pi with [rppal] and the ESP32 with [esp-idf-hal]. But this crate is not restricted to these HAL layers.

Using The Crate

You can use cargo add to add the driver to your Cargo.toml

cargo add adxl345_driver2

or you can manually add the driver to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
adxl345_driver2 = "2"

Examples

You will find examples in the examples directory. The Raspberry Pi I²C and SPI examples are available.

To build the I²C example start by clone this project somewhere on your Raspberry Pi:

git clone https://git.bues.ch/git/adxl345_driver2

Next execute the follow to build the example:

cd adxl345_driver2
cargo build --example rppal-i2c

And finally execute the example:

sudo ./target/debug/examples/rppal-i2c

You should see the series of x, y, z values displayed in the terminal if your device has been hooked up using the primary I²C that the example expects.

Output example:

axis: {'x': 1.6083, 'y': 0.0392, 'z': 8.7868} m/s²
axis: {'x': 1.6867, 'y': 0.1177, 'z': 8.7868} m/s²
axis: {'x': 1.6475, 'y': 0.1177, 'z': 8.8260} m/s²
...

no_std

This crate can be used in no_std environments. Just enable the no_std feature, if you want to build without std library.

no_std currently only disables the implementation of std::error::Error for AdxlError.

[dependencies]
adxl345_driver2 = { version = "2", features = ["no_std"] }

TODO

• Most of the driver is currently implemented as provided methods in a chain of traits. That is more complicated than it needs to be. And it also exposes the low level bus access routines to the user API. It would be better to have two trait based low level bus access structs for I²C and SPI and then implement a driver struct that is generic over this trait. The problem with this change is that it is a user visible API change. Therefore, we'll keep the old implementation for now.

Licenses

All code files are available under the MIT license. You can find a copy of the license in the LICENSE file.

All additional documentation like this README is licensed under a CC-BY-SA / Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.