12
Dec
2006
links for 2006-12-13
-
The DS Motion Card is a revolutionary motion sensor for the DS and DS Lite handheld gaming systems. It contains a 3-axis accelerometer and a single-axis gyroscope, and plugs into the DS card slot to enable full motion sensing on the DS and the DS lite.
-
Homebrew console game development resources
-
The Postal Address Geo-Coder (or PAGC) is a command line program written in ANSI C that uses an address-ranged street network shapefile and an address list (in a dbf format file) to create a point shapefile that provides the longitude/latitude coordinates
-
Map-Fu is a full-featured web mapping interface written using PHP/Javascript that can be easily modified and used as part of a custom web mapping application. It is designed to function as part of an open source mapping stack including UMN Mapserver .
-
Mac OS X Service to convert Markdown to and from HTML using keyboard commands
-
Discover the joy of diving the Poor Knights Islands with Knight Diver Tours
My name is 
December 13th, 2006 at 9:16 am (#)
Regarding the DS Motion Card - what I would love to see is a Bluetooth version of this or the WiiMote that just streams an xyz offset from the last time you hit a button on it or send it a reset message. That could provide a decent solution for indoor navigation. Each time you’re at a known location indoors, reset it, and roam around. You could put reset points around a building every few hundred meters of hallway. Stand on the red X to resync your navigator… of course at some point we’ll have ICBM inertial navigation accuracy and will only have to rest every 1000 miles or so.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:58 am (#)
Well, the DS has WiFi - so you can use WiFi geolocation as well as the relative nav of the DS Motion Card to provide probably fairly high-resolution indoor location. Coupled with the dual displays and touch-screen inputs, would make for a very neat interactive exhibit device.
Of course, good suggestion on the WiiMote too - that could also be used as an actual “wand” so as you walk around a museum, use it to activate and control various exhibits as you approach them. There has been a lot of advancement in using WiiMotes for computers and streaming the Accels.