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Hah, this reminds me of one of the first programs I wrote for personal use. My Macbook at the time had an accelerometer or gyro of some kind. So I made a progra
by mbil 3y ago
Hah, this reminds me of one of the first programs I wrote for personal use. My Macbook at the time had an accelerometer or gyro of some kind. So I made a program to monitor the output from that sensor, and it would send me an email when the motion stopped. I'd run the program, set the laptop on top of my running dryer, and go upstairs. In retrospect it was probably not smart to leave a laptop on top of the dryer for an hour :)
- badgerbbbadger 3y agoThis is one of the most bodgy things I've come across and I love it! Did you end up replacing it with something else?
- mbil 2y agoEnded up just replacing it with a timer, which was good enough. The main reason was that I wanted to use my computer while the laundry was drying.
- rzzzt 2y agoSudden motion sensor for detecting klonks from eg. a fall so the HDD can put the heads somewhere safer. It was also used to generate lightsaber sounds: https://youtu.be/phcXNisiD8w https://youtu.be/phcXNisiD8w
- Scoundreller 2y agoMake an app that does this and people can tape their old cell phone to it and report. Could just work with sound if no accelerometer/gyro.