#!/usr/bin/env python # Author: Brendan Le Foll # Copyright (c) 2014 Intel Corporation. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining # a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the # "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including # without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, # distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to # permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to # the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be # included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF # MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND # NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE # LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION # OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION # WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE import mraa HMC5883L_CONF_REG_A = 0x00 HMC5883L_CONF_REG_B = 0x01 HMC5883L_CONT_MODE = 0x00 HMC5883L_DATA_REG = 0x03 GA_1_3_REG = 0x01 x = mraa.I2c(0) x.address(0x1E) x.writeReg(HMC5883L_CONF_REG_B, GA_1_3_REG) x.writeReg(HMC5883L_CONF_REG_B, HMC5883L_CONT_MODE) x.address(0x1E) x.write(HMC5883L_DATA_REG) # this method takes a char* as an input where sizeof(m) defines the read size x.address(0x1E) m = " " print (x.read(m)) print (m) x.address(0x1E) x.write(HMC5883L_DATA_REG) # this method simply takes a size_t arg and returns an std::string, however # it's less efficient x.address(0x1E) print (x.read(6))