Comments on: Tilting at ThinkPads http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/ Raising The Eight Bar Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:42:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: musclecarsales.org » Blog Archive » Thinkpad Accelerometer Etch-a-Sketch http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-239211 musclecarsales.org » Blog Archive » Thinkpad Accelerometer Etch-a-Sketch Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:28:05 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-239211 [...] - tilting the thinkpad draws a line, tilting it another way changes the direction, etc. Very cool!read more | digg [...] [...] - tilting the thinkpad draws a line, tilting it another way changes the direction, etc. Very cool!read more | digg [...]

]]> By: eightbar - ThinkPad tilting revisited http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-2844 eightbar - ThinkPad tilting revisited Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:17:42 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-2844 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-103 Pete Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:18:37 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-103 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. 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 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-83 Strangeparty » Blog Archive » Free Pizza & New Friends Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:48:59 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-83 [...] Tilting at Thinkpads [...] [...] Tilting at Thinkpads [...]

]]> By: Philip Hartman http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-81 Philip Hartman Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:31:01 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-81 Really cool post! Really cool post!

]]> By: Roo http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-75 Roo Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:21:50 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-75 There are more links and some background on <a href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System" rel="nofollow">Active Protection System at ThinkWiki</a>, the Linux ThinkPad wiki. There are more links and some background on Active Protection System at ThinkWiki, the Linux ThinkPad wiki.

]]> By: nol http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-71 nol Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:37:01 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-71 Digging around a bit more on this subject, I came across <a href="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> 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. 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.

]]> By: Roo http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-69 Roo Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:06 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-69 Nice! It's things like this which make me increasingly interested in adopting Linux on my laptop. Nice! It’s things like this which make me increasingly interested in adopting Linux on my laptop.

]]> By: nol http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-68 nol Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:10:20 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/13/56/#comment-68 The linux 2.6.14 kernel now contains the <a href="http://hdaps.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">hdaps</a> driver. This provides an interface to the system via /sys. This does not provide the auto-parking of hard drives, but a read-only view of the acceleration information. There are already a number of applications that use this - including ones to do the hard drive protection. But more exciting, is a patch to the Super-Monkey-Ball-esque game <a href="http://rlove.org/log/2005100302.html" rel="nofollow">Neverball</a>. I run the stock unbuntu 2.6.12 kernel at the moment on my X40 but this may well be the reason that leads me to break out a compiler and start patching. The linux 2.6.14 kernel now contains the hdaps driver. This provides an interface to the system via /sys. This does not provide the auto-parking of hard drives, but a read-only view of the acceleration information.

There are already a number of applications that use this - including ones to do the hard drive protection. But more exciting, is a patch to the Super-Monkey-Ball-esque game Neverball.

I run the stock unbuntu 2.6.12 kernel at the moment on my X40 but this may well be the reason that leads me to break out a compiler and start patching.

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