Raspberry Pi and L3GD20 Triple-Axis Gyro Breakout Board

[HendrixJL]

Can I use the L3GD20 with the raspberry pi. Your statement that you added level shifting for the Arduino makes me worried that I shouldn't hook up it to my Pi? On the other hand, if Vcc is 3.3v does that mean the logic levels will be in the 3.3v range?

[adafruit]

the level shifting protects the chip from 5V logic, but it will also work great with 3.3v power and logic!

however, at this time we do not have any tutorials for working with the gyro and the pi, and no ETA as to when we'll get to it

[lamunozh]

Hi. I am working with the L3GD20 Triple-Axis Gyro Breakout Board on the BeagleBone and I get that it work (I think so).

The code is in: https://github.com/lamunozh/BeagleBone. (and others Adafruit's Breakout Board)

I think is similar that on Raspberry Pi®. Please check it and talk me if you see mistakes.

Excuse me, for my English.
Adiós (bye).

[HendrixJL]

I got it working. Here is how I hooked it up (see picture) and the code is how I get the gyro readings.

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import smbus
import time

def twoscomp( x ) :
   "This returns a 16-bit signed number (two's complement)"
   if (0x8000 & x):
      x = - (0x010000 - x)
   return x

bus = smbus.SMBus(1)
address = 0x6b
print "Time, deltaT, temp, status, x, y, z"
bus.write_i2c_block_data(address, 0x20, [0x0F])
tlast = 0
while True:
   temp,status  = bus.read_i2c_block_data(address, 0xA6, 2)
   if (status & 0x08):
      xlow,xhi,ylow,yhi,zlow,zhi = bus.read_i2c_block_data(address, 0xA8, 6)
      x = (xhi*256 + xlow)
           y = (yhi*256 + ylow)
      z = (zhi*256 + zlow)
      tim = time.time()
      t = ["%20.6f"%tim, "%20.6f"%(tim - tlast)]
      tlast = tim
             a = ["%2d" % temp]
           s = ["%03x" % status ] #[hex(status)]
      b = ["%5d"%i for i in [twoscomp(x), twoscomp(y), twoscomp(z)]]
      print t+a+s+b


[shigeru]

Hello!

I have been working on this breakout board recently and made a little module. I have posted it here, any inputs are appreciated. Please note that it is work in progress.
https://bitbucket.org/shigeru_kawaguchi ... 20_for_rpi

Thanks.