Look at "HMC5883L, C programming" on the Adafruit BBB forum

On Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:25:45 AM UTC+8, Swazoo Claybon wrote:
>
>
> So I have been trying to interface a digital compass (Sainsmart 3-Axis 
> Digital Compass IC HMC5883L)*. *In order to do so I have been learning 
> about I2C devices and using Derek Molloy's [Beaglebone: An I2C tutorial - 
> Interfacing to a BMA180 Accelerometer] tutorial. He came to a part where he 
> went into /sys/devices/platform/omap from root. He did this to determine 
> whether or not the device has been hooked up properly as I have been trying 
> to do. Unfortunately, I don't have an omap. Does anyone know why, or if I 
> can get it from somewhere like github. 
>
> This is what shows up for me:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/platform# ls
> alarmtimer                    omap-mailbox            power          uevent
> arm-pmu                      omap-pcm-audio        reg-dummy
> edma-dma-engine.0    omap_hwspinlock.0    serial8250
> nop_usb_xceiv            omapfb                        snd-soc-dummy
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Also if anybody has any resources on how to use the HMC5883L 3-axis 
> digital compass with Python, that would be much appreciated.
>

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