N95 accelerometer with Blender

Hi, after one busy week I managed to release this first simple demo that shows you how to use the n95 accelerometer as an input device in Blender The application is structured in this way:

• Mobile client, a python script which reads the accelerometer data and sends it via bluetooth to the pc
• A server that runs on your pc and shares the data with the BGE through a local UDP non-blocking socket
• A Blender script which handles the cube rotation in the BGE using the n95 accelerometer’s data

Why did I use a local socket? Sometimes I experienced some lag using pyserial in Blender, so to avoid that my idea was to use a non blocking socket. With this approach I had a smooth game running in Blender without any lag.

What do you need to run this? A Nokia N95, a PC/Laptop with a BT connection and Blender of course! You need to install PyS60 on your Nokia phone from here. Download both PythonForS60_1_4_5_3rdEd.sis and PythonScriptShell_1_4_5_3rdEd_unsigned_testrange.SIS you need to sign the ScriptShell otherwise the accelerometer data won’t be retrieved by the script due to security reasons of Nokia phones. You can sign it from https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page using “Open signed online”. I’m going to put the source code of what I did really soon, I want to improve a little bit some part of the code to make it more stable. However even though the scenario I present in this video is really simple, it’s a way to show you how Blender is really powerful (besides modeling, animating, composing, whatever ), Python is really one the strongest features that Blender has, since it makes the possibilities of interaction with other apps, device etc,  endless. Try for example to imagine the N95 as a joypad for a Blender game WipeOut style (I personally hate WipeOut, but somebody may love it ).

So enjoy the video and if you have feedbacks, questions, comments, feel free to ask!

Edit: sources available! Click here to download blender95!

Akta