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by adm4 35 days ago
guitar detuner that uses accelerometer instead of microphone, it doesn't really work, but amazing to see how sensitive they are.
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It also shows that it can leak all kinds of other information.
…which is why both Android & iOS put high-frequency access to the accelerometer behind an additional permission AFAIR.
It really is crazy. Placing my phone on my chest lying down i can clearly see my heartbeat on the graph
good idea https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/heartRate.html , try setting it on the ground and see how sensitive it is to foot steps.... or earthquake https://seismosense.com
it detunes guitars?
It tunes every string to D