[bouLED] Visualizing an orientation

The first thing I did for our project bouLED was to write a python script to visualise the orientation of our test card.

bouLED will need to know its orientation, which will be computed from a MARG (Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravity) sensor using Madgwick’s algorithm. In order to easily check the results of this computation, we want to draw and rotate a 3D shape as we rotate the card with the MARG sensor. The orientation of the card is represented as a quaternion, and will be sent to my python script via a serial port.

We haven’t implemented Madgwick’s algorithm yet, so I just sent arbitrary quaternions to test the visualization. Its latency was at first unacceptable (~0.5s) when I used PySerial to read the serial port.  Sending the serial port to the script standard input made the latency imperceptible.