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+use crate::spi::HypedSpi;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
+use byteorder::{LittleEndian, ReadBytesExt};
+use std::thread::sleep;
+use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
+use serde_json::json;
+
+
+// implement get_motion function first
+// add readByteFromRegister (?) function to HypedSPI trait which takes register address and gives data
+
+const REG_MOTION_BURST: u8 = 0x16;
+const TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
+
+
+pub struct PMW3901<SPI> {
+    spi: SPI,
+
+}
+
+impl<SPI> PMW3901<SPI>
+where
+    SPI: HypedSpi,
+{
+
+    
+    pub fn new(spi: SPI) -> Self {
+        PMW3901 { spi }
+    }
+
+    // **ATTEMPTED PYTHON IMPLEMENTATION OF get_motion**
+    pub fn get_motion(&mut self) -> Result<(i16, i16), &'static str>{
+        let start = Instant::now();
+
+
+        while start.elapsed() < TIMEOUT {
+            // Send burst read command and read 12 bytes
+            let mut data = [0u8; 13]; // Includes the command byte
+            data[0] = REG_MOTION_BURST; // first element in data is the register
+            self.spi.read(&mut data).map_err(|_| "SPI read failed")?; //read data using HypedSpi trait
+
+            // Parse the response data
+            let mut cursor = &data[1..]; //slice data and use cursor to go thrugh the data
+            let _ = cursor.read_u8().unwrap(); // read each byte from cursor and assign it to variables
+            let dr = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let obs = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let x = cursor.read_i16::<LittleEndian>().unwrap(); // x and y value is what we need and little endian is used to make sure bytes are ordered ith LSB first
+            let y = cursor.read_i16::<LittleEndian>().unwrap(); // LittleEndian takes (advances) 2 bytes from cursor
+            let quality = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let raw_sum = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let raw_max = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let raw_min = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let shutter_upper = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+            let shutter_lower = cursor.read_u8().unwrap();
+
+            if (dr & 0b1000_0000) != 0 && (quality >= 0x19 || shutter_upper != 0x1F) {
+                return Ok((x, y)); // Return delta x and y if valid
+            }
+
+            // Delay before retrying
+            sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
+
+        }
+
+        Err("Timed out waiting for motion data")
+    }
+
+}
+
+
+// the # implements the Serialize trait from the serde crate for the strcuts. this is apparantly needed to convert strcut to json
+#[derive(Serialize)]
+struct Measurement {
+    header: Header,
+    payload: Payload,
+}
+
+#[derive(Serialize)]
+struct Header {
+    timestamp: u64,
+    priority: u8,
+}
+
+#[derive(Serialize)]
+struct Payload {
+    x: i16,
+    y: i16,
+}
+
+
+// Make main function with flexible error handling
+pub fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+
+
+    let spi = HypedSPI::new() // spi implementation?
+    let mut sensor = PMW3901::new(spi);
+
+
+    // While loop implementation from python code
+    loop {
+
+        // Get motion data
+        let (x, y) = sensor.get_motion()?;
+
+        // Prepare measurement data
+        let measurement = Measurement {
+            header: Header {
+                timestamp: SystemTime::now()
+                    .duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)? // Get time in secs from epoch as in the python code
+                    .as_secs(),
+                priority: 1,
+            },
+            payload: Payload { x, y },
+        };
+
+        // Serialize measurement data to JSON
+        let measurement_data = serde_json::to_string(&measurement)?;
+
+        // Print payload 
+        //println!("{}", measurement_data);
+
+
+        // delay
+        sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
+
+    }
+}    
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