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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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You will need a magnetometer device, such as PiBorg's XLoBorg module (which is a combined I2C magnetometer and accelerometer). In this example, we will only focus on the magnetometer (the smaller chip on the left) output. The XLoBorg module is shown in the following photo:

The PiBorg XLoBorg module contains a three-axis magnetometer and accelerometer

This device can be used with both types of robot, and the angle information received from the module can be used to determine which direction the robot needs to move in.

The module is designed to connect directly to the GPIO header, which will block all the remaining pins. So, in ...

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