Programming in Ruby [WAS: Re: Freerunner games / using motion sensors in C]

[ramsesoriginal]

Hi there.
What about programmin in ruby? Are there already some bindings present
to access accellerometers/gps/bluetooth/etc ?
If not, are there any plans on making them?

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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>  Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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>  | If somebody tells me how to use the accelerometers, I will have a go. Is
>  | it just like /dev/joydev ?
>
>  You just open /dev/input/event2 (top accel) and/or 3 (bottom).  Have a
>  look in <cross path>/usr/include/linux/input.h -- basically these guys
>  turn up in there 300 a second:
>
>  struct input_event {
>         struct timeval time;
>         __u16 type;    <==== type = 2
>         __u16 code;    <==== code = 0=X, 1=Y, 2=Z
>         __s32 value;   <==== signed mG force in 18mG steps
>  };
>
>  - -Andy
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