maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - fcam team has experimental gyroscope for n900

	joerg_rw	2010-07-21 , 21:42
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Originally Posted by quipper8

We use an external gyroscope because the internal
accelerometer in the N900 is not suffciently accurate for this task"

quite nonsensical. The builtin is an accelerometer and thus incapable by design and by concept to detect shaking relevant for camera.

A gyro is not an accelerometer aka g-meterThey are complementary, each one is sensing the movement the other one can't detect.

So the rationale given is extremely missleading

For the connecting topic I'd guess they exploit some of the testpads under battery. If source can tell details, I'd be highly interested. Don't think they are using a USB hostmode fixed to working state en passant.

/jOERG

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