ACCELEROMETER: Homemade Accelerometer

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Hacker genius Erling Ellingsen has made his own $2 multitouch input pad from a plastic bag full of blue dye and an iSight camera. He’s also hacked the iPhone’s accelerometer that allows you to control the phone by tipping, rotating or shaking it. Since then, the robot has gone through twelve revisions. Although somewhat crudely made, the robot incorporates sensors to automatically clamp onto the bar, and an accelerometer to determine when to let go. Weighing 5.9 kg (13 lb) and standing 45 cm (17.7 An idle mind is the devil’s worksop, but then again sometimes idle minds conjure up wonders like this homemade accelerometer-controlled USB gamepad which houses a PIC18F2550 from Starlino within. The code for the firmware was written in PicBasic Pro and The 51-year-old would-be artist says his favorite robot is HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Well, these homemade creations may not be a transceiver, accelerometer and an onboard, single-board computer. The degree of control it'll offer over a To achieve this, Harbingerx81's controller uses a gyroscope and accelerometer that can detect movement across three axises. The end product is a controller that moves the gun in-game with your motions in the real world. The unique hack crams the innards of but adds an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, compass and Wi-Fi. This gives you a lot of room to customize your own gear. Tiny Circuits shows off a version of a homemade smartwatch that takes the TinyScreen kit and incorporates it into a 3D-printed case .

Look, we're as tired of Angry Birds as you are -- the phenomena has certainly run its course. But, if we had Simon Ford's home-made slingshot controller around an mbed microcontroller, three-axis accelerometer and a stretch sensor. Around a dozen keen members -- and 150 part-time - form the basis of this music chapter; designing, building and re-purposing instruments to suit ambitious creative projects. The 'washing machine' is one of eight home-made instruments the members have There are several free iPhone-iPod Touch apps that let you look at the acceleration of the device using the built in accelerometer this guy knows how to build a home made centrifuge). I finally settled on this awesome PASCO rotating platform. .