Micro:Bit MMA8653.h not found (BLE examples)

[rando]

Howdy!,

I'm working through this excellent write-up on how to use the Arduino IDE with the Micro:Bit.

https://learn.adafruit.com/use-micro-bi ... o/overview

I am especially keen to get the accelerometer talking via BLE to an Android app, to support an inquiry lesson plan I'm doing today. However when I run the example code, after I have followed all the concise setup directions, I consistently got an error regarding being able to import the "MMA8653.h" file.

Clearly I was missing a library.

I poked around all the obvious suspects as to where it might reside locally my PC, but failing that, I asked Google and it sent me to here ...

https://github.com/hidnseek/hidnseek/tr ... /libraries

Where a prospective library was found.

I added this to my Arduino IDE library folder and I am getting a good compile, but am wondering if I'm missing an obvious and superior Adafruit library that would provide equivalent or better functionality? I attach the library for convenience sake. (I would suspect lack of the is library would break all the Adafruit BLE accelerometer examples, unless I'm missing something simple)

Best,.

R.

[rando]

All,

I did have further opportunity to look through Lady Ada's excellent posting, and she specifically discusses the MMA8653 device. She seems to have selected the same code as I did.

https://learn.adafruit.com/use-micro-bi ... gnetometer

'Learned my lesson, to read through the posted information, before I tackled running the examples that shipped with the package.

My plan is order 10 of these Micro:bits for end of the year and then have them to apply for next semester. Arduino support goes a long way to being able to apply some sort of learning trajectory between the web hosted programming tools, and the more traditional PC hosted Arduino IDE.

Much appreciated.

R.

[rando]

Linking everything together... BLEPlotter demo

Using library Adafruit_Microbit at version 1.0.0 in folder: C:\Users\randa\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Adafruit_Microbit
Using library Adafruit_GFX_Library at version 1.2.2 in folder: C:\Users\randa\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Adafruit_GFX_Library
Using library BLEPeripheral at version 0.4.0 in folder: C:\Users\randa\Documents\Arduino\libraries\BLEPeripheral
Using library Wire at version 1.0 in folder: C:\Users\randa\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\sandeepmistry\hardware\nRF5\0.4.0\libraries\Wire
Using library MMA8653 in folder: C:\Users\randa\Documents\Arduino\libraries\MMA8653 (legacy)
Sketch uses 21360 bytes (14%) of program storage space. Maximum is 151552 bytes.