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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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Saving the calibration

Having calibrated the sensor once in its current position, it would be inconvenient to have to calibrate it each and every time that you ran the robot. Therefore, you can add the following code to your library to automatically save your calibration and read it from a file the next time you run your robot. To create a new calibration, either delete or rename mag.cal (which is created in the same folder as your script), or create your compass object compass(newCal=True).

Add the following code near the top of the file (after the imports statements):

FILENAME="mag.cal" 

Change __init__(self) to __init__(self,newCal=False).

Also, consider the following line:

self.offset,self.scaling=self.calibrateCompass() 

Change the previous ...

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