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Linux drivers for USB Motion Detector from Make: 16

Linux drivers for USB Motion Detector from Make: 16

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 […]

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Evolving Wii control experience

Evolving Wii control experience

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 […]

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Power Pack – Generating power with the motion of a back pack

Power Pack – Generating power with the motion of a back pack

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 […]

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