accelerometer

Windows 8 can support sensors including; adaptive brightness and automatic screen rotation. Windows 8 is powerful and handling the accelerometer with a low-pass filter to prevent images from being jittery and to improve system response.…

John Mulhausen walks you through building a very quick application that will take you from zero to visualized accelerometer output (in the form of a line graph) in just 13 minutes. Click here to download the source code for this app at the Silverlight for Windows Phone Code Gallery.

In this deep dive, Sean McKenna from Windows Phone and Greg Hodgal discuss how to program for Windows Phone 7 using the accelerometer. An accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration forces such as gravity or the forces caused by moving the sensor. All Windows Phones have at…