There's a new Windows Phone 7 project place in town...

CodePlex is one of the more (most?) common place you'll find hosting Windows Phone 7 projects. It's a a prefect match for many developers, given that it's free, can host source, binaries, docs, work items and discussions and plugs directly into Visual Studio. That said, everyone is different and have different needs and likes.

There's a new, for Windows Phone 7 dev's anyway, project hosting location in town. One that many in the Microsoft sphere might not have considered or ever heard off, but in hindsight makes sense...

Who's hosting this mystery project site? Nokia! Yep, that Nokia.

And surprisingly enough, today's project is hosted there and comes to us via a comment left on a previous post.

Bubble Level Silverlight

Simple Silverlight example demonstrating use of accelerometer sensors to calculate the inclination of the device and presents this as a traditional bubble level.

General

BubbleLevel Silverlight is a port of Qt Bubble Level Qt application, more information about the port can be found from the porting story page.

Of special note is the wiki pages where you'll find a great story on how this project was built and also how the porting was done.

It's a simple app, but sometimes simple is all you need (less is more and all that). Here's a snap of the project and a code snip.

/// <summary>
/// Updates the position of the bubble in the glass tube.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e">Contains the accelerometer reading value.</param>
protected void UpdateBubble(AccelerometerReadingEventArgs e)
{
     const double RADIANS_TO_DEGREE = 57.2957795;
     double divider = Math.Sqrt(e.X * e.X + e.Y * e.Y + e.Z * e.Z);

     // Calculating the angle + using low pass factor 20 %.
     // Values from all three accelerometers are used to get more precise reading on y-axis.
     m_Angle += (Math.Acos(e.Y / divider) * RADIANS_TO_DEGREE - 90 - m_Angle) * 0.2;

     double angle;

     // Depending on the orientation, invert the accelerometer value
     if (Orientation == PageOrientation.LandscapeLeft)
     {
         angle = -m_Angle + m_CalibrationFactor;
     }
     else
     {
         angle = m_Angle - m_CalibrationFactor;
     }

     const double MAX_ANGLE = 20.0;

     // Restrict the angle value to the range -20 and 20 degrees.
     if (angle > MAX_ANGLE)
     {
         angle = MAX_ANGLE;
     }
     else if (angle < -MAX_ANGLE)
     {
         angle = -MAX_ANGLE;
     }

     // Set the bubble position.
     BubbleTransform.X = angle / MAX_ANGLE * (Reflection.Width / 2 - Bubble.Width / 2);
}