How to use the Accelerometer on Circuit Playground Express with Makecode

At the heart of every Adafruit Circuit Playground Express lies a three-axis accelerometer. This allows us to write programs that take the orientation of the board into account. We can detect orientation and acceleration on any axis. With MakeCode there are two different ways to interface with the accelerometer, events and live data. We can look for specific gesture events like a shake, freefall, tilt, or specific G or acceleration. We can also read live data which returns the immediate acceleration for a given direction in milli-g (1/1000 of gravity).

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