Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

Paul-Valentin Borza paulvalentin at borza.ro
Tue Aug 12 19:12:03 CEST 2008


Ok, I understand now. They can be made like you just said, only that I need
to recalibrate the whole thing, so that more states are created per cycle.
I'll try in a future release. Right now I'm concentrating on the UI, and
writing docs on the Wiki.

Thanks,
Paul

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Ross Woodruff <rossw1991 at googlemail.com>wrote:

> I dont mean short gestures, those gestures were fine length wise, just
> your arm movements were big if that makes sense, for example the cirlce
> you made a really big circle, but is it not possible to make a much
> smaller circle and for the left and right ones, do you have to move it
> that far to the right or would just flicking it to the side work?
>
> Hope that makes sense
>
> Paul-Valentin Borza wrote:
> > Those were some gestures that I thought were useful to use - due to
> > lack of imagination for short gestures.
> > If anyone can think to some short gestures, please tell me how these
> > short gestures should look like, and I'll create them.
> > We're not constraint to use those gestures, not at all.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Ross Woodruff
> > <rossw1991 at googlemail.com <mailto:rossw1991 at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dont have my freerunner yet but that really is a great bit of
> >     work, keep
> >     it up, can see this being really useful, only criticism some of the
> >     gestures seems to be a little, well, over the top, I mean, if I was
> on
> >     the bus and I started doing the Z shape for example people would
> think
> >     what I was upto, do the gestures have to the this exagerated or
> >     was that
> >     just for the demo so people could clearly see what you were doing?
> >
> >     Paul-Valentin Borza wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > As Google Summer of Code 2008 is almost at its end, here's a video
> >     > showing what you should expect out of the accelerometer-based
> >     gestures
> >     > project:
> >     >
> >
> http://digg.com/gadgets/Openmoko_Neo_Freerunner_Motion_Gestures_Screen_Orientation_2
> >     >
> >     > There still are some things that need to be worked on for the
> >     GUI, but
> >     > I will release another package on Thursday/Friday with everything
> >     > you've just seen in the YouTube video.
> >     >
> >     > Again, big thanks to Daniel for helping me out with the problems I
> >     > have encountered on the way. Thanks Daniel!
> >     > This doesn't mean that I'll stop working on the project; on the
> >     > contrary, I will continue to improve it, and I'll use the Neo for
> my
> >     > primary development target.
> >     >
> >     > More on http://gestures.borza.ro
> >     >
> >     > Thanks,
> >     > Paul
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