DS Motion Card: Tilt those dual screens
Ever wished that you had the SIXAXIS‘s tilt technology wherever you went? Well, we’re not about to tell you to lug your PS3 around town, but we do have an alternative which you can put into your Nintendo DS. And it’s actually more of a three-axis instead of six.
In any case, for US$ 25 at sites like DSPassMe, you can get yourself the DS Motion Card, which, according to the product page:
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. It is the first tri-axis accelerometer that can be used for homebrew DS development, and the first and only accelerometer/gyroscope combination available for handheld gaming.
This basically means that plugging in this card to your DS will allow it to sense gravitational acceleration (acceleration caused by a change in velocity), as well as the speed of rotation around an axis perpendicular to the lower screen of your DS. At the moment, its features include Tilt Sensing, Motion Sensing, Twist Sensing and Gesture Recognition.
There’s also no need to worry about running out of games to use this technology on, as games and apps can be coded to work with the DS Motion Card using the C Code which is provided at the official site.
So, can anyone code up Loco Roco for the DS using this new thingamajig?
Ever wished that you had the SIXAXIS‘s tilt technology wherever you went? Well, we’re not about to tell you to lug your PS3 around town, but we do have an alternative which you can put into your Nintendo DS. And it’s actually more of a three-axis instead of six.
In any case, for US$ 25 at sites like DSPassMe, you can get yourself the DS Motion Card, which, according to the product page:
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. It is the first tri-axis accelerometer that can be used for homebrew DS development, and the first and only accelerometer/gyroscope combination available for handheld gaming.
This basically means that plugging in this card to your DS will allow it to sense gravitational acceleration (acceleration caused by a change in velocity), as well as the speed of rotation around an axis perpendicular to the lower screen of your DS. At the moment, its features include Tilt Sensing, Motion Sensing, Twist Sensing and Gesture Recognition.
There’s also no need to worry about running out of games to use this technology on, as games and apps can be coded to work with the DS Motion Card using the C Code which is provided at the official site.
So, can anyone code up Loco Roco for the DS using this new thingamajig?