tilt you laptop to steer a racecar, or do pretty much anything else

[zip22]

http://kernelthread.com/software/ams2hid/

theres really not a good summary paragraph to quote, but basically, apple powerbooks have a sudden motion sensor to detect if the laptop is dropped. this guy has written a program that allows you to tap into the motion sensor and use it as a user interface.


heres a link to the movie of steering the racecar
http://idisk.mac.com/ams2hid/Public/AMS2HID_manygames.mov

 

[attack]

could use a little more sensitivity to be really useful....but none the less I think that's sweet!

Hopefully they'll get better/quicker sensors and it'll be really awesome.

 

[Verymanynames]

could use a little more sensitivity to be really useful....but none the less I think that's sweet!

Hopefully they'll get better/quicker sensors and it'll be really awesome.

I don't know, I doubt they would do that because its designed to save the HD not play games.

 

[k3nshin]

this wuld be a great idea if you had a tablet pc!

that way you could play a tilt maze game or something!

 

[gigahertz]

ibm thinkpads have the same technology