Hi guys I recently bought an accelrometer and want to make a simple program that reads out the values in G's. I followed an online tutorial but i doesnt understand why the done this readx = bus.read_byte_data(addr, OUT_X_L) readx2 = bus.read_byte_data(addr, OUT_X_H) x = readx | readx2 << 8 if x…

Accelerometer reading

wvmarle April 9, 2018, 12:27pm 3

The two values are not summed, that | is a bitwise OR, see also this tutorial.

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