[ExI] wii controllers

[Emlyn]

Spike, grab yourself a nice Android phone (I'm using a Nexus One), and
go to http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/ . Playing with accelerometers
(and compass, cameras, webby stuff, sms, phone calls, speech to text,
etc etc etc) becomes, literally, child's play.


2011/6/29 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
>
>
>
>
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Will Steinberg
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:43 AM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [ExI] wii controllers
>
>
>
>>…Great thread!  Hopefully the game companies are on the ball enough to
>> continue on this path and use the current stuff as a base for better and
>> better VR, then we can all see the awesome cyber-world we all desire a la
>> snow crash or whatnot.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The critically important thing here is that a new and (to me) unexpected
> thing happened.  A remarkably competent very cheap three axis accelerometer
> hit the market while I wasn’t even looking (too busy raising a toddler.)  So
> here I am, a guy who used accelerometers professionally for years and years,
> and even wished I owned some of them, but they were typically several
> thousand dollars each, but how cool would it be to have some for various
> things.
>
>
>
> Suddenly and unexpectedly, a somewhat scaled down lowish bandwidth version
> of a three axis accelerometer with (apparently) imbedded firmware double
> integrators, hit the market, selling for about 40 bucks!  And I, a controls
> engineer, DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE until five years later.
>
>
>
> Oy.
>
>
>
> spike
>
> .
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
>



-- 
Emlyn

http://my.syyn.cc - Synchonise Facebook, WordPress and Google Buzz posts,
comments and all.
http://point7.wordpress.com - My blog
Find me on Facebook and Buzz