Hey,<br><br>There was a long discussion on accelerator on the list back in Jan07. I have just searched through the mailing list archive...<br><br><a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-January/002067.html">
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-January/002067.html</a><br><br>Cheers,<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Paulson</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com">
robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i've been thinking recently about other applications for the openmoko,
<br>beyond the usual phone/maps/gps/internet access, and a couple of them<br>require an accelerometer<br><br>i could find no mention of one in the wiki, either in the hardware<br>list or the wish list. does anyone have any ideas?
<br><br>would this be unfeasable in a device like this for any particular<br>reason? size? weight? power?<br><br>thinking slightky laterally, could the vibrating battery be used in<br>reverse to provide this sort of data, in a similar way to using an
<br>electric motor as a generator, or a speaker as a microphone?<br><br>if anyone's interested, one of the ideas was to enable it to function<br>as a pedometer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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