shakeyshakey
Posted: June 19th, 2009 | Author: john | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acceleromters, thinkpad, twitter, ubuntu | No Comments »When accelerometers meet Twitter.
This programs calculates the covariance of data sampled from a Thinkpad’s accelerometers. If the covariance is over a certain threshold it posts the result to Twitter. Or more simply put, shake your laptop and make it tweet!
It is a command line program which requires a Twitter username and password to be supplied e.g.
shakeyshakey -u foo -p bar
Built and tested on Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope).
http://zedstar.org/tarballs/shakeyshakey_0.1.orig.tar.gz
http://zedstar.org/deb/shakeyshakey_0.1-1_i386.deb
