FR as wireless mouse
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? -- Thanks, The Digital Pioneer ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
You could try to submit a bug report / feature request on remoko. I assume it could be expanded:) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
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? I'm interested in this application (as a tester...the only contribute that I can do, sorry). What do you think about the FR also as a USB mouse (in order to charge it when you use it)? Cheers Giacomo -- /_\ The ASCII Per comunicare in modo riservato: \_/ Ribbon Campaign gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net \ X Against HTML--recv-keys 20611EAD /_\ Email! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
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). 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? -- Thanks, The Digital Pioneer ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes gunnar.grimnes [AT] dfki.de DFKI GmbH Knowledge Management Trippstadter Strasse 122 D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Office: +49 631 205 75-117 Mobile: +49 177 277 4397 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes 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). But you could use it by rotating as in iput device for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcAfeature=channel ;) 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? -- Thanks, The Digital Pioneer ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes gunnar.grim...@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 :( ) -- Valério Valério http://www.valeriovalerio.org 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? -- Thanks, The Digital Pioneer ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes gunnar.grimnes [AT] dfki.de DFKI GmbH Knowledge Management Trippstadter Strasse 122 D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Office: +49 631 205 75-117 Mobile: +49 177 277 4397 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
Yeah, you're the guy whose blog gave me the idea. I never heard of it again. If you won a competition with it, it must work to some extent... Is there any way to do it yet? I don't need a whole lot of precision, as long as it doesn't skip all over the screen like a bad optical mouse. :P ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
On Feb 27, 2009, at 15:43 , 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? I elect you ! :) Steve ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FR as wireless mouse
I would too, if I knew the first thing about physics, vectors, and accelerometry. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
