Idea for Openmoko application: seismic sensor network

Sun Sep 21 12:25:42 CEST 2008

I tried to compile BOINC for my freerunner, without any luck, a while 
ago - I wanted to run seti at home.
Yes, I'm insane... ;)
Vasco Névoa wrote:
> Now that our phones have accelerometers and are Internet capable, how 
> about contributing to the "Quake Catcher Network"?
> http://qcn-web.stanford.edu/Overview.html
>> It is based on an open source project called BOINC 
> (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) and therefore I think OM would be a very 
> nice addition to the sensor network.
>> Maybe the "Gestures Daemon" could be expanded into something a little 
> more generic (preferably integrated into FSO's Dbus API) and could 
> filter the information, separating events by classes, like "Rotation of 
> the Down vector", "Gesture", and "Seismic Vibration" (which are all 
> mathematically different)... and so each client app (Rotate, Gestures 
> Listener, BOINC, etc.) would pick up on the desired class of data.
>> Just an idea... :)
>> Vasco Névoa.
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