30 January 2007

ShakerRacer is now Open Source!

As you may have already know; ShakerRacer is the concept similar to NokMote and especially NiiMe that allows you to control a real RC car with the accelerometer of the N95. This means that you can turn and accelerate car simply by tilting your phone.

It turned out that this is a very intuitive and natural way to control the car. You do not need any practice as the concept can be understood instantly. So there's nothing that can block your way to fun!

When you're playing a racing game or using an RC car, you will very often move your whole body when driving through tight turns or accelerate with full speed — but the control itself is very often still done through abstract buttons on a game controller or keyboard or some kind of remote controller.

ShakerRacer does not need this additional layer and allows you to control an RC car directly through your movements — by using the acceleration sensor of your mobile phone. It works in a very intuitive way: just tilt your phone in the direction you want to drive. That's it!

Now it’s finally ready, the has code been improved through the past few months they have also added several new features, features like speed limit mode for demonstrating the car at exhibitions. With the latest version of ShakerRacer, it is very easy to control the car – and of course it’s a lot of fun. The great thing is that you don’t have to explain the concept to anyone. It’s just a natural way to drive.

Anyway, they’ve have just released the source code along with some documentation. You can download it for free at symbianresources.com, so (nearly) nothing can stop the fun anymore.

The Python application now uses the official Nokia Sensor-API by default. This allows using the mobile client with the Nokia 5500, Nokia N95 (Firmware 20+), and Nokia N95 8GB and Nokia N82.

For the N95 with older firmware, it is possible to reconfigure the code to use the very nice aXYZ Python-module from Cyke64.

Find more information at symbianresources.com

.:accelerometer:.

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