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Unable to read accelerometer
We've been trying for several days to read values from the accelerometer with no success. We have verified the accelerometer works correctly by accessing it using an Arduino. We have tried with both the round and flat DB37 cables to connect the digital breakout board, fixing our broken ribbon cable as described at the US First site. We have tried two I2C cables and two digital breakout boards.

Stepping through I2C::Transaction in I2C.cpp, aborted is always being set to true on line 102. There is no documentation as to what this means, but on lines 102 and 103 data and dataHigh are being set to 0. If anyone has any thoughts, or could step through ADXL345_I2C::GetAccelerations down into I2C::Transaction to see what they get we would be most grateful.

Thanks

Steve