perky-accelerometer

BeagleBone Black using the Adafruit MMA8451 Accelerometer

Introduction

This project is to share my experience using a BeagleBone Black to read the Adafruit Triple Axis Accelerometer which relies on the NXP MMA8451. I am writing this during May, 2022 for the BeagleBone Black (Revision C) using AM3358 Debian 10.3 2020-04-06 4GB SD IoT

Pins

| Header | Pin | Name      | Description       |
|--------|-----|-----------|-------------------|
| P9     |  1  | DGND      | Ground            |
| P9     |  4  | VDD_3V3   | Accelerometer Vin |
| P9     | 19  | I2C2_SCL  | Accelerometer SCL |
| P9     | 20  | I2C2_SDA  | Accelerometer SDA |