Nokia N95 accelerometer in Blender

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n95-blenderMarco Rapino has created a Python script to use the N95′s accelerometer data in the Blender game engine.

Marco wrote:

Hi, I’m a 25 years old italian developer working in a research centre in Helsinki (CKIR). I developed this prototype which shows you how the N95 accelerometer’s data can be used in Blender, thereby as an input device for the BGE. The prototype is simple I know, but the aim is to show how Blender possibilities, besides modeling, animating, composing (that is also for what I use Blender mainly for) etc. are practically endless since you can use the Python language within it. Which makes Blender, one of the most flexible software I have ever seen/worked with. You can find more informations (soon I will upload also the source code and .blend files) at my blog.

Thanks for your attention!

Marco

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    35 thoughts on “Nokia N95 accelerometer in Blender”

    4. @mercury:
      true, you can also use the wiimote of course, but in general Python extends so much Blender that I have some difficulties in thinking about all the possibilities, which are endless since Python can be extended using c and c++ :)

    5. Cool experiment, maybe in the future we have such a device to control the viewport. I think its best to control it with the head. Im pretty sure Sony and Microsoft are also experimenting which such devices for their game consoles and the PC will follow. The next step is to control the cursor with the eyes and make a click with a blink :)

      Btw. isnt that Wonderboy in Monsterland music in the background? Its so familiar.

    6. Wow! That’s cool! It reminds me of my course at school, call “Multimedia presentation” when we learn how to use Arduino. Pretty cool trick!

    9. @Bastian:
      if you roughly think that you could attach your N95 to a baseball cap then you have what you want :D no seriously, you can do something like that using the ps3 controller. It’s better than the wiimote because you can rotate on z, x and y axis (twist,roll and tilt) that are basically the movements that your head can do. Wiimote doesn’t have a gyroscope, even if they promised to integrate it with the wiimote plus and that limits the rotation on the z axis. And yes, the music is from wonderboy 3 :D

      @others:
      thanks! :)

    10. great thinking, This could also be used as a 3d modeler if the phone records linear acceleration precise enough. try it out with blenders sculpt function. how much is such phone :)

    12. I found an article on similar matter – haptic 3d sculpting. But it is hosted at ACM and they are not going to provide
      full free access to any resources grr… It is another form of eliticism?
      http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=300535 -articles on computer graphics as any other scientific articles should be free acessible, not hosted and prevented from any individual!!!

    20. @aktathelegend:
      lo que yo decía es que el uso que se le puede dar al teléfono es similar al control de la Wii: tal vez lo exprese mal :)
      buen trabajo el tuyo :)
      saludos…

    25. @agile

      As long as you can access them in Python, yes they will work :) if python doesn’t provide direct access to the accelerometer you need to write a connector in c/c++. do you have some device specific in mind? so maybe I can be more precise on how you could do :)

    31. I have an access to 3 wiimotes wich we use as the base for Whiteboard in college. And, i think, it possable to use them the same way with 4 buttons on them :)

      Under Linux i was able to use wiimote ass a cursor contreller (in desktop and in games).

      But still, this is cool idea!!!

    32. This is what open source is.Everyone contributes the program according to their talents and the level of knowledge.Creating a huge sinergy which is the very essence of an open-source thing.

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