Neo1973 Update!

Richard Bennett richard.bennett at skynet.be
Mon Jun 4 14:33:13 CEST 2007



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From: "Richard Bennett" <richard.bennett at skynet.be>
To: openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net
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Subject: Re: Neo1973 Update!
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:10:46 +0200

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:31:50 +0200, <openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net>
wrote:

>> the GPS daemon would need to be updated to allow for kallman filtering
>> using those accelerometers, so that the GPS apps could continue pointing
>> the phones location inside tunnels and stuff
> Unfortunately not. As already pointed out on that list, the
> accelerometers error would add up itself.
> Besides: Its only two accelerometers. You can do 2-dimensional
> 'navigating' with that, no more. No tilting/rotating.

In the talk posted to google video they say they have 2 x 3D
accelerometers to allow detecting rotation as well.

Richard.






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