Comments on: Tilting at ThinkPads

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By: Children's toys

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By: wooden toys

wooden toys — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:58:05 +0000

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By: musclecarsales.org » Blog Archive » Thinkpad Accelerometer Etch-a-Sketch

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:28:05 +0000

[...] – tilting the thinkpad draws a line, tilting it another way changes the direction, etc. Very cool!read more | digg [...]

By: eightbar - ThinkPad tilting revisited

eightbar - ThinkPad tilting revisited — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:17:42 +0000

[...] a modified version of SDL (the Simple DirectMedia Library) which supports the ThinkPad accelerometer in any game (on Windows or Linux) which uses the SDL to provide input. Using Mark�s modified library means you can tilt your way to a high score on all these games and more. [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:18:37 +0000

Similar things for the Powerbook have been around for quite a while (a year?). I’ve seen at least one game, which emulated those wooden tilting-board-and-marble toys you used to get with, obviously, the laptop being the board.

By: Strangeparty » Blog Archive » Free Pizza & New Friends

Strangeparty » Blog Archive » Free Pizza & New Friends — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:48:59 +0000

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By: Philip Hartman

Philip Hartman — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:31:01 +0000

Really cool post!

By: Roo

Roo — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:21:50 +0000

There are more links and some background on Active Protection System at ThinkWiki, the Linux ThinkPad wiki.

By: nol

nol — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:37:01 +0000

Digging around a bit more on this subject, I came across this article by Mark Smith, an IBMer at the Almaden Research site. The article talks about how he figured out how to access the accelerometer within linux. More interestingly is the application he used it for; by strapping their laptops into the passenger seats of their cars, he and a colleague managed to prove whose car was faster by graphing the lateral and forward acceleration data produced.