Adafruit flora wearable sensors modules and neopixels adafruit 1247 the adafruit flora accelerometer and compass sensor uses the popular lsm303dlhc chip which contains a classic 3 axis accelerometer and a magnetometer the accelerometer can detect orientation relative to the earths gravity and has a selectable full scale range of plusmn2 4 9 or 16g the magnetometer detects the direction of the strongest magnetic field and can measure between plusmn13 to 18 gauss plusmn13 x 10 4