FR as wireless mouse

Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes gunnar.grimnes at dfki.de
Fri Feb 27 16:27:26 CET 2009


I am sorry to ruin your dreams, but the accelerometer is nowhere
accurate enough for this to work. It only really works well for
rotations (since the gravity then changes).

See http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_Fundamentals



- Gunnar

The Digital Pioneer wrote:
> OK, so it's been on the wiki for a while now, to use the FR and
> accelerometers as a wireless mouse. I even bought a bluetooth USB
> adapter so I could use it as such, since I was under the impression it
> was already done in Remoko. It's not, all I got was a wireless touchpad.
> I already HAVE a touchpad on my laptop, thank you. :P So is anyone ever
> going to do this?
> 
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> 
> The Digital Pioneer
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