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Reading Ultrabook Sensor Data with the Windows 8 Sensor API

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Android Sensor Fusion Tutorial

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Reading Ultrabook Sensor Data with the Windows 8 Sensor API

6 Nov 2012 by Yvan Rodrigues

A head start for App Innovation contestants

Power Settings of Serialport in C#

2 Jan 2014 by Ron Beyer

Serial ports do not provide power, the pins are, in order:1: DCD or Data Carrier Detect2: RX or Receive3: TX or Transmit4: DTR or Data Terminal Ready5: Signal Ground6: DSR or Data Set Ready7: RTS or Request To Send8: CTS or Clear To Send9: RI or Ring IndicatorNone of...

Moving a ball with accelerometer Windows Phone 8

12 Sep 2013 by CPallini

Microsoft gently provides "How to get data from the accelerometer sensor for Windows Phone"[^].Once you are able to get accelerometer inputs, you should easily do a (rough) simulation the ball movement.

Windows-Phone-8

Power Settings of Serialport in C#

2 Jan 2014 by OriginalGriff

Just to add to Ron Beyer's comments about pinout on serial - it is quite likely that Hyperterminal is setting some of the output signal pins high and your device is reading those and turning itself on (it may also be actually powering itself from them, if it's draw is low enough, RS232 signals...

Accelerometer detection in macbook

7 Oct 2016 by Jochen Arndt

It should be possible by polling the sensor periodically and compare the sensor data with the data from the previous poll. However, polling requires a significant amount of system resources when peformed in short intervals which are necessary to detect short sudden movements. Most...

Power Settings of Serialport in C#

2 Jan 2014 by Xeshan Ahmed

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Well I have enabled DtrEnable and RtsEnable now device is working fine. I have noticed that power LED was getting power from these signals. _serialPort = new SerialPort("COM3"); _serialPort.StopBits = StopBits.One; ...

How to find Free-Fall Detection using Embedded C ?

30 Oct 2014 by enhzflep

Taken from this stack exchange answer: http://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/4223/enable-free-fall-detection-using-arduino[^]"Sitting an accelerometer flatly on a bench will produce a value of 1G in one of the 3 axes.Free fall of an accelerometer (assuming you haven't reached...

How to send the phones accelrometer data via bluetooth.?

8 Nov 2014 by Nikhil_Malik

Is it possible to make an android app that sends the phones accelrometer data via bluetooth to a bot so that we can control the bot by using the phones readings. Like if tilt the phone right the bot should turn right. Thanx in advance.

How to find Free-Fall Detection using Embedded C ?

9 Nov 2014 by User 59241

I think Google will be far more productive than asking here.Choose your accelerometer carefully as not all are useful for this purpose.Look...

Accelerometer detection in macbook

7 Oct 2016 by Taiming J

I want to create Mac desktop app that plays sound when it detects sudden movement of MacBook. Just I saw the article that when I use SMSLib (Sudden Motion Sensor), the app can detect accelerometer.Can someone please help me to know how to detect sudden movement of MacBook?Is SMSLib...

Identifying driving events from GPS and accelerometer data

15 Jan 2017 by Praveen P R

I have an IOT device sending the following information every second from a car that is being driven: -Timestamp -GPS co-ordinates (latitude/longitude)> -GPS bearing or Azimuth -Vehicle speed from GPS -Accelerometer readings on X, Y and Z axis.From this information I...

How to send accelerometer sensor x, y, z values of android device to unity5 server via wifi

8 Mar 2017 by CPallini

I looks there are resources available: Simple TCP/IP Client - Server - Unify Community Wiki[^].

Android Sensor Fusion Tutorial

18 Feb 2014 by Paul Lawitzki

This article presents one approach to increase the quality of rotation information gathered from different sensor sources using a simple sensor fusion algorithm, specifically on an Android device.

Ultrabook Sensors on Desktop App

5 Jan 2013 by Anup Kumar Verma

Using all Ultrabook sensors on Desktop Application

Moving a ball with accelerometer Windows Phone 8

12 Sep 2013 by Member 9953646

Hi!I'm learning for windows phone 8, and i wanted to write an app where i can move an image using the accelerometer, not a level detector, i want it to move just like in labyrinth games. How would i make this happen? Does anyone have any good samples/turials/explainations or similar? I have...

Windows-Phone-8

Power Settings of Serialport in C#

2 Jan 2014 by Xeshan Ahmed

HiI have serial port accelerometer which i am connecting to PC via "USB to Serial" Cable. When i have tested it with Hyerterminal, AccessPort and Teraterm. It shows power light ON when i connect to the COM port. But when i am trying to use it with C# code with same configurations as...

How to find Free-Fall Detection using Embedded C ?

9 Nov 2014 by RupeshMote

I am creating Automatic Fall Detection device, in which two sensors accelerometer and gyroscope are used to analyze changes in a body's position.So, how to find Free-Fall Detection using Embedded C code?Does any library available in Embedded C for Free-Fall detection?OR Does...

How Can I Send The Readings Of Accelerometer Via Bluetooth.?

7 Nov 2014 by Nikhil_Malik

i created an app that fetches accelerometer data and displays in a textbox. How can I send these readings via bluetooth to control my bot using it.?Please help guys.additional information copied from comments below1)I got the data. But the problem is that I dont know how to send it...

Windows-Phone-8

How to send accelerometer sensor x, y, z values of android device to unity5 server via wifi

8 Mar 2017 by Member 13048149

hi guys i am developing an motion game in unity 5(in computer) and i going to use android mobile as a controller, now I'll will be sending the accelerometer values of android device to unity and for that i had to create a server in unity which can read accelerometer values and according to that...