Hand held wii pc

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[stich]

Since the oqo has its own accelerometer built in would it be possible for someone to write a little program to simulate key strokes kind of like the automatic screen rotation.
Just think of it being able to just tilt your oqo a little to the left and right to steer in racing games.

What do you guys think of this?

[stuartguthrie]

I think that something like this would be a great idea for SSD models, but I'd be very worried about causing disk damage when using the traditional hard disk drive models.

Stu

[Kenrick]

I tried doing this, but the sampling rate for the accelerometer is too low to making gaming very good unless it's slower-paced as opposed to a lightning-quick action game.

http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/techteach/?q=node/33

[stuartguthrie]

Kenrick - do you know who came up with the accelerometer technology? I was always under the impression that it was a technology that Apple created and licensed out but someone the other day said it was Samsung's creation. Wasn't the 1.5GHz PowerBook the first laptop to have it inbuilt?

Stu

[Tekara]

Wikipedia gives the credit to IBM for being the first to include accelerometers in their laptop hard drives. I at least remember the commercials about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive

[stuartguthrie]

Wikipedia gives the credit to IBM for being the first to include accelerometers in their laptop hard drives. I at least remember the commercials about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive

Cool. Thanks for that Tekara

[mariosoqo03]

nothing beats the accelerometer from apple iphone having said that i think if apple could design full games from the original game consule's as an iphone version with a no real disk drive just plain memory i think that oqo 02 would be a greater device for gaming with the solid state drive because it has all the parts like a full laptop and also an accelerometer.correct me if im wrong

[Ken Hinckley]

I suspect a lot of these devices use the Analog Devices accelerometer. I have never cracked open an OQO or iPhone to check though :-) I wouldn't be at all surprised if they use the same underlying sensor. At one point Microsoft had a game controller that used it - you could tilt to control motorcycle racing, etc. I think it was called the Sidewinder Freestyle Pro.

The Analog Devices accelerometer is a MEMS based technology. You can think of it as a little see-saw that tips depending on how the device is tilted. The height of the seesaw changes the distance between two plates so you have a change in capacitance, which can be sensed very precisely. These have been around for quite a while. I used the ADXL202 two-axis linear accelerometer in my old days of sensor hacking (almost 10 years ago now!), but I'm sure they have newer versions now. Three axis accelerometers are now available as well. There is also a company called Kionex that makes accelerometers.

[stuartguthrie]

I suspect a lot of these devices use the Analog Devices accelerometer. I have never cracked open an OQO or iPhone to check though :-) I wouldn't be at all surprised if they use the same underlying sensor. At one point Microsoft had a game controller that used it - you could tilt to control motorcycle racing, etc. I think it was called the Sidewinder Freestyle Pro.

The Analog Devices accelerometer is a MEMS based technology. You can think of it as a little see-saw that tips depending on how the device is tilted. The height of the seesaw changes the distance between two plates so you have a change in capacitance, which can be sensed very precisely. These have been around for quite a while. I used the ADXL202 two-axis linear accelerometer in my old days of sensor hacking (almost 10 years ago now!), but I'm sure they have newer versions now. Three axis accelerometers are now available as well. There is also a company called Kionex that makes accelerometers.

Hey Ken,

Thanks for explaining how the accelerometre technology works.

Stu