PowerBook TiltTop

Posted by Dave on 29 November 2005 | 1 Comments

I have been playing recently with my PowerBook‘s Sudden Motion Sensor which is supposed to be for protected your hard-disk against “sudden motion” (being dropped!), but there’s a hack for finding out its orientation. So you can find out how much the lap-top is being tilted in any direction - think tilt-top!

People have already done a bunch of neat things with this - like rolling a marble around a course and a tipping version of Google Maps.

However, I wanted to be able to build it into my own applications. The only open source version of this code in C from Christian Klein. I don’t get on too well with C, so I’ve built a Java and Flash interface and will upload it source and all very shortly.

Craig and I are discussing how we can use it to build a puppet in Flash.

Cheers,
Dave

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  1. Craig on 29 November 2005

    Here is something tipping / tilting links:-

    Way back in ’94 this bloke did this 3D installation with a tilting screen:
    Jeffrey Shaw - Golden Calf

    And the new Game Boy Advance SP has tilt sensors which has been used in a couple of games including:-

    [url=“http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=3f357781-937a-48b5-aa09-9b9c62fd3689” rel=“nofollow”]
    Topsy-Turvy[/url]

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