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# Thinksaber - Turn your laptop into a lightsaber!
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## Main Idea
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Thinksaber uses the Hard Drive Active Protection System available on
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IBM and Lenovo Thinkpad laptops to detect when the laptop is in motion
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and make an appropriately giggle-worthy Star Wars-like lightsaber
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sound effect. It was an attempt to teach myself some audio and PyGame
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interaction. This is the result. Warning: For all I know, this is a
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*really bad* thing to do to your hard drive, although I never saw any
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problems during testing. See the "NO WARRANTY GRANTED OR IMPLIED"
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line down below.
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## Acknowledgements
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Thinksaber is obviously inspired by the program MacSaber, and I'm
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grateful to the MacSaber people for assembling the Star Wars sound
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effects collection needed to make it so successful.
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Thinksaber uses a motion-detection algorithm derived from the one
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written by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa at gmail.com) for his own
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thinkpad-saber program, which ran only under Perl for Windows.
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Obviously, I think mine's better.
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2012-03-01 01:20:28 +00:00
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## Requirements
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Thinksaber runs under PyGame, a python-based gaming library, and
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should run on any IBM or Lenovo Thinkpad with PyGame installed. Under
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Linux, you may have to activate HDAPS and the joystick device.
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## Porting
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Thinksaber should run under Windows, but I don't have a Microsoft
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Windows installation and so have no idea how to detect the
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accelerometer. Tatsuhiko Miyagawa's perl version is exclusively for
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MS Windows, so in theory porting it should be possible.
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2012-03-01 01:20:28 +00:00
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## NO WARRANTY GRANTED OR IMPLIED
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Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Elf M. Sternberg
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Thinksaber is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
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USA
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- Elf M. Sternberg <elf@pendorwright.com>
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