#accelerometers
I figured out how to handle accelerometers on Sega Dreamcast Fishing Controller, so now I can detect the swing direction!

And cat shows the direction by doing cute moves. 😸

#dreamcast #segadreamcast #whathecatdoin
July 24, 2026 at 12:20 AM
They're turning the fucking accelerometers into braindead AI """tools""".
September 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Oh my god, she bought expensive accelerometers so she could monitor the force of the headbutts that the animals experience over the course of their lives and the goats ATE THEM. LOL! Working with animals presents weird challenges.
January 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts System has turned millions of smartphones into a global seismic sensor grid. By detecting vibrations via phone accelerometers and triangulating signals, the system can issue warnings seconds before shaking arrives. buff.ly/jJXXpPR
#ShareGoodNewsToo
How Android phones became an earthquake warning system
The system uses phones’ accelerometers to trigger warnings ahead of the shaking.
buff.ly
August 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
what’s even cooler to me is how, outside of that coverage area, Google can derive this information from the accelerometers in people’s phones
Google Crisis Response
How Android Earthquake Alerts Work
crisisresponse.google
April 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
vibecoding (editing a robotgirl's cooling fan PWM subroutines to cause flutter harmonics affecting chassis gyro and accelerometers signalling rapid gravity flux and relaxing locomotor support systems)
August 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm really glad they haven't because then MEMS accelerometers and compact brushless motors would need a background check.
June 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
New paper out today! Using accelerometers to generate thermal performance curves in great hammerhead sharks. Their low activation energies may explain why they can perform well across seasons.
March 31, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Ones with seabed pressure sensors can measure the long period waves better than the accelerometers on buoys.

Most of the tsunami-prone world has access to the live data and warnings issued by (mostly) NOAA. Whether sirens etc are in place is a local thing.
September 24, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Got some new toys from @dogstricken.bsky.social / strickendesigns.com, a DG-Lab power box with a couple of buttons/accelerometers/tilt sensors. Looking forward to trying them out, lots of fun possibilities hehe 😈
April 24, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Also any time I do a STEM in schools thing re our work with accelerometers I start by asking who plays Pokemon Go and use that as a branching off point for talking about our work with GPS/accelerometers and animal distance/behaviour. It works really well with students!
September 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
accelerometers to tell me if my angle is good
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The underlying science (accelerometers in every Android phone can create a giant seismic network) is really cool! But also guess what they’re citing a paper from Berkeley from 2014 where some grad students strapped phones to shaketables.

All privatized science begins with publicly funded science.
July 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The autistic individuals are made to wear science kit that can spot when they do any of these things, so people can stop them.
"accelerometers for movement analysis, electrodermal activity (EDA) sensors for measuring emotional arousal, and skin temperature sensors to gather relevant data".
January 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Highlight: Expanding stellar associations as Galactic accelerometers
by Till Sawala, Núria Miret Roig 2026, A&A, 713, A261
www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
September 22, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Tracking biodiversity from space.
GPS + accelerometers + habitat mapping + remote sensing to understand how endangered Canarian houbara bustards use dynamic semi-arid landscapes for survival and reproduction 🌍🌱
#RemoteSensing #Biodiversity #Conservation #SpatialEcology #S2
May 21, 2026 at 7:58 AM
I don't think that the reviewers asking me for higher animal numbers really understand how many 40 goats are. Do you know the CHAOS that comes with dealing with 40 GOATS in an experimental setting!
Mice people cannot comprehend.
3 goats alone ate a tarp, a clock, and 2 expensive accelerometers!
a group of goats standing in a grassy field looking at the camera
Alt: a group of goats running towards the camera
media.tenor.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM
gps+accelerometers go a long way
May 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Walking at a moderate or brisk pace and reduction of heart arrhythmias
heart.bmj.com/content/earl...
association from ~82,000 UK Biobank participants with accelerometers
open-access
Association of self-reported and accelerometer-based walking pace with incident cardiac arrhythmias: a prospective cohort study using UK Biobank
Objectives Dedicated studies aimed at investigating the relationship between walking pace and arrhythmia are limited. This study assessed associations between self-reported and accelerometer measured ...
heart.bmj.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The first drone I ever built used the solid state gyros and accelerometers gutted from a Wii remote as the attitude reference system. Getting smartphone-quality sensors was for the big spenders.
Actually the big push was smartphone computing and sensor components getting really tiny and cheap - modern consumer drones were developed by RC helicopter nerds who realized they could basically build flying smartphones
September 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
GNOME 51 released! Look forward to faster screen recordings, an Auto Rotate option for screens with accelerometers, offline maps, and much more.

Check out our release video! 👉️ LINK-TO-RELEASE-VIDEO

Full release notes 👉️ release.gnome.org/51/

#linux #opensource #freesoftware #foss
Introducing GNOME 51 | GNOME Release Notes
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
release.gnome.org
September 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Just got some new #arduino toys!
January 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BEHOLD MY HYPERFIXATION THIS WEEK. Still waiting on a charging port component to arrive but this went from random THC assisted idea last week to this. The Omnidice. Activated by shaking, it uses accelerometers and rattling 🧲 around Hall effect sensors for true random seeds.

Part 1
March 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM