SenseHat

⇐ Additional Hardware

SenseHAT API Reference

https://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/api/#imu-sensor

Install software

see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/sense-hat/

get up to date, install and reboot

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sense-hat

sudo reboot

Calibrating SenseHAT

see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/sense-hat/

and https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=109064&p=750616#p810193

install calibration software

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install octave -y

cd

cp /usr/share/librtimulib-utils/RTEllipsoidFit ./ -a

cd RTEllipsoidFit

Run

RTIMULibCal

and follow instructions It is worth spending a few minutes doing this

Update config

rm ~/.config/sense_hat/RTIMULib.ini

sudo cp RTIMULib.ini /etc

Hardware Scematics

see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/sense-hat/images/Sense-HAT-V1_0.pdf