FR as wireless mouse

[Valerio Valerio]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes
<gunnar.grimnes at dfki.de> wrote:
> 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).

They are accurate enough, but the kernels drivers/code are very
unstable, I only can reach that with a very old kernel.
Proof of concept video: http://codebits.sapo.pt/s/presentations/20
(sorry only in Portuguese :( )

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Valério Valério

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>
> 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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