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StarkRG

@nixCraft Ok, now someone needs to add an accelerometer or gyroscope and automatically change the rotation amount in real time.

30 Dec 2023 at 6:01 | Wall-to-wall | Open on myside-yourside.net
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mxk

@StarkRG @nixCraft a lot of old laptops had an accelerometer in the hard drive.
I actually used this on my convertible Thinkpad x61t to rotate the screen, until I updated to a SSD...

30 Dec 2023 at 8:05 | Open on hachyderm.io
sur5r

@mxk @StarkRG @nixCraft I'm pretty sure HDAPS is not part of the hard disk. I have an SSD in my x61t as well, but HDAPS is still there.

30 Dec 2023 at 9:45 | Open on chaos.social
mxk

@sur5r @StarkRG @nixCraft interesting 🤔
I really thought that it did disappear with the change to the SSD and old harddrive was listed to have an integrated free fall sensor, while various sites confirm your observation, that Thinkpads had a gyroscope on the Mainboard.

30 Dec 2023 at 9:57 | Open on hachyderm.io
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@StarkRG @nixCraft

On a rolling boat would be perfect to keep the horizon always straight.

30 Dec 2023 at 10:16 | Open on mastodon.cisti.org
StarkRG

@GustavinoBevilacqua You'd need more than just an accelerometer for that the up and down motion would get in the way. A gyroscope would do, but they tend to drift, so combining it with an accelerometer for periodic recalibration is pretty standard. Art that point you're basically constructing an artificial horizon out of GUI windows. I wonder if it would help with sea sickness or just make it worse.

30 Dec 2023 at 11:47 | Open on myside-yourside.net
Arthur

@StarkRG @nixCraft time to mess around with an Arduino Uno and a gyroscope for a while

30 Dec 2023 at 14:27 | Open on mastodon.social
jakob 🇦🇹 ✅

@StarkRG

I saw EXACTLY this almost 10-12 years ago...

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31 Dec 2023 at 8:06 | Open on soc.schuerz.at
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