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Here's a fun app for you android folks: Sensor Sense. See what stuff you've got built into your handset.
Tuesday, 20-Aug-13 21:39:16 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I'll check it out.
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@purplephish20 Try the magnetometer. It's fascinating.
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@ceruleanspark Oh my god my phone can sense almost anything
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@scoot Is yours one of the phones with a barometer in it? The Nexus has the magnetometer, a bunch of acceleration sensors, a gyroscope and something that measures gravity.
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@ceruleanspark It has these http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/343109
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@scoot It DOES have a barometer! (The pressure sensor)
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@scoot Put it in magnetic field mode and wave it over your running hard disk.
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@ceruleanspark Aha, I wasn't certain if that was what you meant. Yeah I dunno WHY it has that
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@ceruleanspark Oh wow all the numbers just shot up
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@scoot Because sensors are cool
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@scoot What I want to know is why it'd need a gravity sensor. If it's solely for an easter egg in which your phone joyously declares itself to be in space if you go there then I approve wholeheartedly
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@scoot The magnetometer is actually what the device uses as its internal compass, rather than using the comparatively complex GPS module just to find out what direction you're facing.
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@ceruleanspark Yeah that also seemed unneccessary but if it's so it can tell when it's in Space that is fantastic
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@ceruleanspark How many games in the Play Store give achievements for playing them while in space? :o
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@redenchilada The future: "You cannot use this app in your current location, as you only licensed it for use on earth"
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@ceruleanspark "public static final float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I"
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@ceruleanspark "GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR"
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@redenchilada I like the nerdiness implicit in "Death_Star_I"
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