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Hi,
Aaron Cohen wrote:
> Can't the accelerometer be used as an input device in addition to just
> being a "about to fall detector?"
Yes, it can - the kernel driver just prints the data taken from the
accelerometer. It's up to another application to make sense out of this.
One purpose would be the mentioned "fall detector" that would then
instruct the disk drive to part its head.
> I seem to remember games where the the input method involved tilting
> the device in the direction you want a marble to roll or something
> like that.
Correct, that would be one option. Mark Smith (they IBM guy who wrote up
the information required to write the kernel module) actually mentioned
he had patched SDL to support the accelerometer as an input device.
Playing "Neverball" by tilting your Laptop sounds like fun :)
Bye,
LenZ
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