Phidget Spatial Basic 3/3/3 - Compass bearing

[Stella.bilodeau]

Hi ,

I would like to know how to access the bearing data of the compass in javascript.

I found the acceleration, the three axis of the compass and the magnetic field, but not the bearing of the compass .

[mparadis]

You'll have to calculate bearing manually. See this page in our documentation for more information.

[Stella.bilodeau]

You'll have to calculate bearing manually. See this page in our documentation for more information.

Would you have an example in javascript?

[mparadis]

This is the only example we have, but it's mostly math so if you understand what's being calculated it should be easy to convert to JavaScript.

[clinton_le_castor]

Have you found out how to calculate the Compass Data Pitch Roll Bearing?
I only need this in Python...

[mparadis]

That post was from 4 years ago, so things have changed quite a bit.

Our phidget22 library now calculates these for you- look up the "eulerAngles" property (in the Spatial channel class) in the API documentation for details:

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from Phidget22.Phidget import *
from Phidget22.Devices.Spatial import *

ch = Spatial()
ch.openWaitForAttachment(1000)

eulerAngles = ch.getEulerAngles()
print("EulerAngles: " + str(eulerAngles))

ch.close()