Fun with my Lenovo T400 and its accelerometer

14 October 2009 oyvind Active

I’ve been curious for a while to see how the Lenovo T400 accelerometer would work with different APIs and Windows 7 so I downloaded the nightly Firefox 3.7 today. I was surprised to see it worked! Here is a small video I made while testing it.

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

Its important to download the latest drivers for the protection system from Lenovo’s update manager. Use the Vista drivers even if you have Windows 7.

Ok.. I’m a nerd.. but I think this was fun.

You can read more about it here : Mozilla Hacks

Technology accelerometer, akselerometer, lenovo, t400, thinkpad

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Written by Olav on 15 October 2009.

Hvordan gjorde du det da? Noen spesielle innstillinger i firefox?

Har siste builden, men det skjer ikke automaisk på en macbook i hvertfall…

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oyvind Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 22:04
Hvilken Macbook har du? Jeg er ikke så veldig inne på Mac’er.

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Written by Olav on 15 October 2009.

Joda, jeg fikk det til! Fant ei side som hadde noen demoer på funksjonaliteten. Funka fint det!
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oyvind Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 23:18
Herlig! På Mac finnes det mye apps man kan installere også, der misunner jeg deg litt.

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Written by Filippo on 26 February 2010.

Hi, I’ve found your video while searching a way to auto-rotate screen and mouse axis using the accelerometer, like tablet pcs do (obviously, with a t400). Never tought about it?

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oyvind Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:53
Hi Filippo, I think its possible, I’ll try with some javascripts in the header.

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Filippo Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 23:19
Great! This is another link I found, maybe you know how to use it… http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/LenovoAPS.aspx

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