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Turn your PC into an ambush multimedia presenter. Thanks go to Ken Delahoussaye for the original article in Make: Volume 16.To download The USB Motion Detector MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete USB Motion Detector article in MAKE: Volume 16 “USB Motion Detector” and you can see that in our […]
Turn your PC into an ambush multimedia presenter. Thanks go to Ken Delahoussaye for the original article in Make: Volume 16. View the PDF of this project and then pick up Make: Volume 16 here for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
pmgeahan has posted Linux drivers for the USB Motion Detector from Make: 16: Thought others might be interested in this; I built the USB motion detector in MAKE 16. The driver program provided was for Windows and was used to make a presentation work. In my case, I’m a Linux guy, so I hacked together […]
So you want to play motion based games on something other than the Wii product? Try out the Darwin, the latest evolution in gaming. Magnetometers that check the controller’s movement against the earth’s magnetic core. So cool. The result of all these sensors in the controller is that it gives a very accurate rendering of […]
Finally, you can recharge your iPod with Clif bars. When the military needed to recharge batteries on the move, they turned to University of Pennsylvania professor Larry Rome, an expert in muscle power and, it turns out, a capable inventor. His solution the world’s first electricity-generating backpack Rome, who studies fish muscles, says the idea […]
As part of her research at the MIT Media Lab, Anita Lillie did some investigations of her own sleep habits recording motion sensor data via Arduino – I outfitted myself with sensors that would help me determine how my position changes over the course of a night’s sleep. I used three accelerometers as tilt sensors, […]
