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Signal Desktop for Arm/Linux
As I've been spending a lot of time with Arm hardware lately as my primary desktop and server platform I missed using my secure messenger app of choice. I was able to cook up builds for both armv7l/armhf/GNU Linux (32-bit) and arm64/aarch64/GNU Linux (64-bit).
These are unofficial but fully working builds of Signal Desktop for Linux on Arm processors. Enjoy !
Signal Desktop armv7l/armhf/GNU Linux
Signal Desktop arm64/aarch64/GNU Linux
Singular Value Decomposition explained circa 1976
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is used widely today in Semantic Search and has many other uses in Deep Machine Learning. This is a pretty good explanation/visualization from 40 years ago.
Two sorts with Rust
Here are some initial thoughts on Rust in the almost two years since I last looked at it along with some implementations of merge and quick sort. (These are just my opinions so please don't panic !)
1. Cargo is awesome for managing package dependencies and building projects.
2. Rust is a very nice systems programming language that supports a functional style of programming. Much easier to work with than C/C++ with very near the same performance in many cases.
3. Strong static inferred type system !
4. The authors have not neglected the rich and varied history of programming language theory while trying to be very pragmatic about the design and usefulness of the language.
Let's look at implementing some popular sorting algorithms. First … quick sort.
I won't be pedantic here by explaining the quick sort algorithm but an elegant and performant implementation is ~20 LOC. Not bad for a systems level programming language.
pub fn quicksort_rec(nums: Vec
) -> Vec { return match nums.len() { cnt if cnt <= 1 => nums, cnt => { let mut left = Vec::new(); let mut right = Vec::new(); let pivot = nums[0]; for i in 1..cnt { match nums[i] { num if num < pivot => left.push(num), num => right.push(num), } } let mut left_sorted = quicksort_rec(left); let mut right_sorted = quicksort_rec(right); left_sorted.push(pivot); left_sorted.append(&mut right_sorted); return left_sorted; }, }; }
An implementation of merge sort is a bit longer at ~35 LOC.
fn merge(mut left: Vec
, mut right: Vec ) -> Vec { let mut merged = Vec::new(); while !left.is_empty() && !right.is_empty() { if left.last() >= right.last() { merged.push(left.pop().unwrap()); } else { merged.push(right.pop().unwrap()); } } while !left.is_empty() { merged.push(left.pop().unwrap()); } while !right.is_empty() { merged.push(right.pop().unwrap()); } merged.reverse(); return merged; } pub fn mergesort_rec(nums: Vec ) -> Vec { return match nums.len() { cnt if cnt <= 1 => nums, cnt => { let mut left = Vec::new(); let mut right = Vec::new(); let middle = cnt / 2; for i in (0..middle).rev() { left.push(nums[i]); } for i in (middle..cnt).rev() { right.push(nums[i]); } left = mergesort_rec(left); right = mergesort_rec(right); return merge(left, right); }, }; }
Lastly, here are the timings for my very CPU under-powered laptop …
Ring probabilities in F#
A few months back I took a look at Elixir. More recently I've been exploring F# and I'm very pleased with the experience so far. Here is the ring probabilities algorithm implemented using F#. It's unlikely that I will ever use Elixir again because having a powerful static type system provided by F# at my disposal is just too good.
let rec calcStateProbs (prob: float, i: int, currProbs: float [], newProbs: float []) = if i < 0 then newProbs else let maxIndex = currProbs.Length-1 // Match prev, next probs based on the fact that this is a // ring structure. let (prevProb, nextProb) = match i with | i when i = maxIndex -> (currProbs.[i-1], currProbs.[0]) | 0 -> (currProbs.[maxIndex], currProbs.[i+1]) | _ -> (currProbs.[i-1], currProbs.[i+1]) let newProb = prob * prevProb + (1.0 - prob) * nextProb Array.set newProbs i newProb calcStateProbs(prob, i-1, currProbs, newProbs) let calcRingProbs parsedArgs = // Probs at S = 0. // Make certain that we are positioned at only start location. // e.g. P(Start Node) = 1 let startProbs = Array.concat [ [| 1.0 |] ; [| for _ in 1 .. parsedArgs.nodes - 1 -> 0.0 |] ] let endProbs = List.fold (fun probs _ -> calcStateProbs(parsedArgs.probability, probs.Length-1, probs, Array.create probs.Length 0.0)) startProbs [1..parsedArgs.states] endProbs
Here's the code.
No promises this time but I may follow this sequential version up with a parallelized version.
Ring probabilities with Elixir
I've been hearing more about Elixir lately so I thought I'd take it for a spin.
"Elixir is a functional, meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM. It is a dynamic language that focuses on tooling to leverage Erlang's abilities to build concurrent, distributed and fault-tolerant applications with hot code upgrades."
I've never really spent any time with Erlang but always been curious about it and the fact that it's one of the best kept 'secrets' in many startups these days. I've heard for years how easy it is to 'scale out' compared with many other languages and platforms.
Joe Armstrong, the creator of Erlang, wrote a post about Elixir in which he seemed to really like it except for some minor things. This got me even more curious so I decided to write some code that seemed like it could benefit from the features provided by Elixir for easily making suitable algorithms parallelizable.
Let's talk about Ring probabilities. Let's say we had a cluster of N nodes in a ring topology. We then might have some code that requires S steps to be run and each subsequent step is run on a node to the right of the previous node with some probability P.
In the initial state (S=0) the probability of some piece of code running on node A is P=1.
At the next step (S=1) the probability of the step running on a node to the right in the ring is P and the probability of the step running on a node to the left is 1-P.
Here is an example with some crude ascii diagrams to visually represent this :
Initial node probablity for 5 node ring at S=0 is P=1 for starting node. N = 5 (nodes) For S = 0 (initial state) 1 - P = 0.5 P = 0.5 Counter-clockwise Clockwise +-----+ | P = | +----------+ 1.0 +----------+ | +-----+ | +--+--+ +--+--+ | 0.0 | | 0.0 | +--+--+ +--+--+ | | | | | +-----+ +-----+ | +--+ 0.0 +---------+ 0.0 +--+ +-----+ +-----+ Node probablities for the same 5 node ring after 2 state transitions N = 5 (nodes) S = 2 1 - P = 0.5 P = 0.5 Counter-clockwise Clockwise +-----+ | P = | +----------+ 0.5 +-------------+ | +-----+ | +--+--+ +--+--+ | 0.0 | | 0.0 | +--+--+ +--+--+ | | | | | +------+ +-------+ | +--+ 0.25 +---------+ 0.25 +--+ +------+ +-------+
Let's first write the sequential version of the algorithm to calculate the ring probabilities. The parallel version will be handled in the next post. Data types in Elixir are pretty basic at this point with Elixir still having not reached 1.0. I decided to use an array to represent the ring in anticipation of later parallelizing the algorithm. A list seemed unsuitable for this due to access times being linear and that a parallel map across the structure would most likely be required. For a sequential version it's interesting that a list is the fastest data structure to use in combination with recursion and pattern matching but I'll get into that in the next post.
For now let's get back to implementing a sequential version with an array and the map function …
Elixir doesn't have an array or vector type (yet ?). I'm not going to comment on this. Instead we will use Erlang's array type. Dipping into Erlang libraries from Elixir is pretty trivial so it's no big deal other than Elixir's parameter conventions for function calls is the reverse of Erlang's and this can be a little annoying.
Let's look at the function for calculating the node probabilities given a direction change probability, number of nodes and state count :
def calc_ring_probs(p, n, s) when is_float(p) and p >= 0 and p <= 1 and is_integer(n) and n > 0 and is_integer(s) and s >= 0 do # Probs at S = 0. # Certain that we are positioned at only start location. # e.g. P(Start Node) = 1 initial_probs = :array.new [size: n, fixed: true, default: 0.0] initial_probs = :array.set 0, 1.0, initial_probs final_probs = initial_probs IO.puts "Calculating ring node probabilities where P=#{p} N=#{n} S=#{s} ...\n" # If we are moving beyond the initial state then do the calculation ... if s > 0 do # ... through all the states ... final_probs = reduce 1..s, initial_probs, fn (_, new_probs) -> calc_state_probs(p, new_probs) end end final_probs end
The first thing you might notice at the beginning of calc_ring_probs are the guard clauses (when …) after the function parameter definition. This is a nice way of ensuring some pre-conditions are met for the function to return meaningful results.
We check that the probability parameter is a float within the range 0.0 -> 1.0, we also make sure that there are more than zero nodes and this must be an integer and that the state is either zero or more and also an integer.
Next the initial probabilities are created using an Erlang array. If the state required is not the initial state (S=0) then we reduce for the number of states and calculate the probabilities of the ring at each state(calc_state_probs) until we reach the final state.
Now let's look at the implementation of calc_state_probs.
def calc_state_probs(p, prev_probs) when is_float(p) and p >= 0 and p <= 1 do sz = :array.size(prev_probs) :array.map fn(i, _) -> prev_i = if i == 0 do sz - 1 else i - 1 end prev_prob = :array.get(prev_i, prev_probs) next_i = if i == sz - 1 do 0 else i + 1 end next_prob = :array.get(next_i, prev_probs) p * prev_prob + (1 - p) * next_prob end, prev_probs end
The function takes the probability P and an array of the previous probabilities. We determine the previous and next node probability indexes based on the current index. If the current index is the first or last index in the array then the previous index is the last and the next index is the first, respectively. We calculate the current index using the respective probability P or 1-P and the previous and next node probabilities.
That's really all there is to the sequential version.
On a macbook air a 1,000,000 node ring over 10 state changes takes ~7.4 seconds.
bash-3.2$ mix run lib/ring_probs.ex 0.5 1000000 10 Calculating ring node probabilities where P=0.5 N=1000000 S=10 ... {:array, 50, 0, 0.0, {{0.24609375, 0.0, 0.205078125, 0.0, 0.1171875, 0.0, 0.0439453125, 0.0, 0.009765625, 0.0}, {9.765625e-4, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10}} ... 999950 node probabilities ... {:array, 999950, 0, 0.0, {{{{{{0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {9.765625e-4, 0.0, 0.009765625, 0.0, 0.0439453125, 0.0, 0.1171875, 0.0, 0.205078125, 0.0}, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10}, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100}, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000}, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000}, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000}} calc time: 7370.12 msecs
The complete code can be found here.
My reluctance with Elixir is that it's a strong dynamically typed language. This is much the same issue I've had with Erlang. There are ways to work around this. One way is using a static analysis tool. Read this for more info. Apparently success types are a way to correctly infer types in Erlang. I can't say that I'm convinced, my own experience has shown that any production system that needs to scale at least requires something like type-hinting. I might be wrong and in fact I hope I am because I like what I've seen regarding Elixir and heard about the Erlang VM for building distributed systems.
In the next post we'll re-write the code to make it run concurrently and also look at how a sequential version of the algorithm using recursion, pattern matching and lists is an order of magnitude faster than the sequential version using arrays in this post.
The sequential recursive version may even be faster than a concurrent version depending on how many cores your machine has ;-)
Clojure's growing popular mind share
Popular interest in Clojure has rapidly increased over the last few years since 2008, almost to the level of Java (the language) today, which has dropped off significantly. (At least according to Google web trends.)
In contrast, popular interest in Common Lisp seems to have dropped off steadily since 2004.
I used "java language" instead of "java" because it is ambiguous enough to mean the language, framework, JVM, the island or the coffee.
OS X 10.9 "Sea Lion" finally supports OpenCL on Intel HD 4000/5000
O-notation considered harmful (use Analytic Combinatorics instead)
For so long I've been skeptical about the classic approach of the "Theory of Algorithms" and its misuse and misunderstanding by many software engineers and programmers. Big O notation, the Big Theta Θ and Big Omega Ω notations are often not useful for comparing the performance of algorithms in practice. They are often not even useful for classifying algorithms. They are useful for determining theoretical limits of an algorithms' performance. In other words, their theoretical lower bound, upper bound or both.
I've had to painfully and carefully argue this point a few times as an interviewee and many times as part of a team of engineers. In the first case it can mean the difference between impressing the interviewer or missing out on a great career opportunity due simply to ignorance and/or incorrigibility of the person interviewing you. In the latter it could mean wasted months or even years in implementation effort and/or a financial failure in the worst case.
In practice the O-notation approach to algorithmic analysis can often be quite misleading. Quick Sort vs. Merge Sort is a great example. Quick Sort is classified as time quadratic O(n²) and Merge Sort as time log-linear O(n log n) according to O-notation. In practice however, Quick Sort often performs twice as fast as Merge Sort and is also far more space efficient. As many folks know this has to do with the typical inputs of these algorithms in practice. Most engineers I know would still argue that Merge Sort is a better solution and apparently Robert has had the same argumentative response even though he is an expert in the field. In the lecture he kindly says the following : "… Such people usually don't program much and shouldn't be recommending what practitioners do".
There are many more numerous examples of where practical application does not align with the use of O-notation. Also, detailed analysis of algorithmic performance just takes too long to be useful in practice most of the time. So what other options do we have ?
There is a better way. An emerging science called "Analytic Combinatorics" pioneered by Robert Sedgewick and the late Philippe Flajolet over the past 30 years with the first (and only) text appearing in 2009 called Analytic Combinatorics. This approach is based on the scientific method and provides an accurate and more efficient way to determine the performance of algorithms(and classify them correctly). It even makes it possible to reason about an algorithms' performance based on real-world input. It also allows for the generation of random data for a particular structure or structures, among other benefits.
For an introduction by the same authors there is An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms(or the free PDF version)and Sedgewick's video course. Just to make it clear how important this new approach is going to be to computer science (and other sciences), here's what another CS pioneer has to say :
"[Sedgewick and Flajolet] are not only worldwide leaders of the field, they also are masters of exposition. I am sure that every serious computer scientist will find this book rewarding in many ways." —From the Foreword by Donald E. Knuth
Purely Functional Data Structures & Algorithms : Selection Sort
*Updated @ 2012-08-31 02:08:58 due to internet pedantry*
According to Wikipedia :
In computer science, a Selection sort is a sorting algorithm, specifically an in-place comparison sort. It has O(n2) time complexity, making it inefficient on large lists, and generally performs worse than the similar insertion sort. Selection sort is noted for its simplicity, and also has performance advantages over more complicated algorithms in certain situations, particularly where auxiliary memory is limited.
(A functional implementation of selection sort is however, not an in-place sort.)
Behold the abomination which is the imperative implementation (from the Wikipedia link) :
int i,j; int iMin; for (j = 0; j < n-1; j++) { iMin = j; for ( i = j+1; i < n; i++) { if (a[i] < a[iMin]) { iMin = i; } } if ( iMin != j ) { swap(a[j], a[iMin]); } }
Now, the functional equivalent in Haskell :
selectionSort :: [Int] -> [Int] -> [Int] selectionSort sorted [] = reverse sorted selectionSort sorted unsorted = selectionSort (min:sorted) (delete min unsorted) where min = minimum unsorted
Or in Shen :
(define selection-sort-aux { (list number) --> (list number) --> (list number) } Sorted [] -> (reverse Sorted) Sorted Unsorted -> (let Min (minimum Unsorted) (selection-sort-aux (cons Min Sorted) (remove-first Min Unsorted))))
Yes. These functional snippets use their respective implementations of the list type (which is not an efficient persistent data type in either Haskell or Shen for accesses or updates). Replacing the List type with Data.Sequence(a persistent data type with efficient constant access and update) for the Haskell snippet is trivial. I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. Shen is too new to support these efficient persistent types at the moment but implementations will appear in the future and changing the snippet would also be trivial. A Clojure implementation using it's already built in efficient persistent types would also be trivial.
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Sensors are integral part of the Android user experience. Acceleration sensor makes sure that the screen layout changes to landscape when you turn the device (open an application that supports landscape layout, e.g. the calendar, keep the device in portrait mode, move the device swiftly sideways to the right and if you do it quick enough, you can force the display to change to landscape mode). Proximity sensor blanks the screen and switches on the keylock when the user makes a phonecall and puts the device to his or her ear so that the touchscreen is not activated accidentally. In some devices, temperature sensor monitors the temperature of the battery. The beauty of the Android programming model is that one can use all these sensors in one's application.
Click here to download the example program.
A very similar application called SensorDump can be found on Android Market. Our example program is inferior to SensorDump in many respect but has a crucial feature: it can log sensor values into a CSV file that can be analysed later on (use the menu to switch the capture feature on and off). Update: from the 0.2.0 version of SensorDump, sensor data logging into CSV file is available. This is not much important with e.g. the proximity sensor which provides binary data but I don't believe one can understand at a glance, what goes on with the e.g. accelerator sensor during a complex movement just by looking at the constantly changing numbers on the device screen.
I can see the following sensors on my Nexus One.
BMA150 - 3-axis accelerometer
AK8973 - 3-axis Magnetic field sensor
CM3602 - Light sensor
Some sensors are projected as more than one logical sensor, for example the AK8973 is also presented as an orientation sensor and the CM3602 as the proximity sensor. This is just software, however, these duplicate logical sensors use the same sensor chip but present the sensor data in different format.
Let's start with the most popular sensor, the accelerometer. This measures the device's acceleration along the 3 axis. A logical but somewhat unintuitive property of this sensor is that the zero point is in free fall - otherwise the Earth's gravity acceleration is always present. If the device is not subject to any other acceleration (the device is stationary or moves with constant speed), the sensor measures the gravity acceleration that points toward the center of the Earth. This is commonly used to measure the roll and the pitch of the device, try the excellent Labyrinth Lite game on Android Market if you want a demonstration.
The graph below shows sensor data in two scenarios (note that all the data series can be found in the download bundle under the /measurements directory). The red dots show the value of the accelerometer when the device was turned from horizontal position to its side, right edge pointing to the Earth. The green dots show the sensor values when the device was tilted toward its front edge so that at the end the upper edge pointed toward the Earth.
This is all beautiful but don't forget that the acceleration sensor eventually measures acceleration. If the device is subject to any acceleration other than the gravity acceleration (remember the experiment with the portrait-landscape mode at the beginning of the post), that acceleration is added to the gravity acceleration and distorts the sensor's data (provided that you want to measure the roll-pitch of the device). The following graph shows the accelerometer values when the device was laying on the table but I flicked it. The device accelerated on the surface of the table and the smaller blue dot shows the value the accelerometer measured when this happened. As if the device was tilted to the right.
The second sensor is the magnetic field sensor, the compass. As far as I know, this sensor is not used for anything by the base Android applications, it is all the more popular for all sorts of compass applications. The magnetic sensor measures the vector of the magnetic field of the Earth, represented in the device's coordinate system. In 3D, this points toward the magnetic north pole, into the crust of the Earth. The following graph shows the scenario when the device was laying on the table but was rotated in a full circle on the surface of the table.
Even though the magnetic sensor is not subject to some unwanted acceleration like the accelerometer, it is subject to the influence of metal objects. The following graph shows the values of the magnetic sensor when the device was laying on the table but after a while I put a small pair of scissors on top of the device. You can see that there are two clusters of sensor values: one with the scissors, one without.
The third sensor is the light sensor that doubles as proximity detector. The light sensor is more evident but the proximity detector deserves some explanation. The proximity detector is really a light sensor with binary output. If blocked, it emits 0.0, otherwise it emits 1.0. The photo belows demonstrates the location of the sensor and how to block it.
45 comments:
- Ed Burnette said...
Nice article! More like this, please.
- March 13, 2010 at 12:39 AM
- Kevin McDonagh said...
Ah, you listen for the light sensor being blocked. That's how to detect proximity. obviously, thanks!
- March 13, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
kevin, the proximity detector is provided by the cm3602 chip which is essentially a light detector.
- March 13, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Aaron77 said...
Thanks for the example code. I have a small question maybe somebody can help me with...
When I try and build the example code to android 1.5 (so i can try it on my Samsung Galaxy) I get an error "R cannot be resolved" and I notice that the file R.java no longer gets built in the /gen directory. Do you have any idea what is causing this problem? Is there some part of the example I need to comment out so it will build correctly?
Aaron Lieber
- March 16, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Aaron77, the project was created for Android2.0.1. Why? Because I was plain lazy.
I propose that you backport the project to Android1.5. This should not be hard, I am not aware that the code uses any facility that is not available in 1.5. I do propose, however, that you don't fiddle with the existing build scripts, but create a new project for Android1.5 and copy the Java source files, the resource files and update the AndroidManifest.xml.
- March 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- Zephyris said...
Nice stuff! This is (almost) exactly what I was looking for... Is there any chance you could make a little update? It would be really handy to be able to record data from the different sensors simultaneously, particularly the accelerometer and the compass...
- April 3, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- koti said...
Hi all,
At present i am working on hal part of sensors in android sdk, we are using 3- Axis BMA-150 Accelerometer sensor to get acceleration values with respect to X,y,Z Axis, I want to know whether this sensor will give o/p directly in SI units by using some calibration techniques or what ? , and i noticed that in sensor.c file they mentioned
720.0 LSG = 1G(9.8 m/s2), what is the relation between LSG and acceleration due to gravity? what is meant by LSG
why they are multiplying the o/p of accelerometer x,y,z valuse with 9.8/720.0f . please help on this part .
Thanks Vinay
- April 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Vinay, here is the datasheet.
- April 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- nature lover said...
Are the cm3602 and the other sensor drivers standard Linux drivers, without any changes specific to Android? If not, is there a document that describes the changes needed to the drivers, and the hooks needed to interface them to the Android sensor interface? Thanks for your help.
- July 15, 2010 at 1:53 AM
- Ugo said...
The magnetic sensors might be used for something else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrYgZIul4O0
- July 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM
- Moustafa Farid said...
very nice article,
- October 18, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Thanks for this nice article!
Do you know the maximum sampling rate that we can get by the accelerometer?
According to Android 2.2 compatibility document, device should deliver the accelerometer events in 50Hz or faster. But I could only have around 5hz.
- November 21, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Boris, there is an improved version of the Sensors program that actually measures sampling frequency.
I never got past 30 Hz on my Nexus One.
One could go much higher with these sensors, there seems to be some kind of limitation in the software.
- November 22, 2010 at 12:09 AM
- Lars Vogel said...
Thanks for the summary on sensors. This was helpful.
- January 5, 2011 at 10:24 PM
- Kumar Shwetabh said...
Very nice coverage of sensors especially for Nexus One :). Thanks!
- May 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM
the software can report a sensor but not be physically installed on the phone?
- June 6, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Anonymous, I admit I don't understand your question. What is not installed physically on the phone, the sensor or the software?
- June 7, 2011 at 9:10 AM
I mean the sensor.
I have a H3000 (Android chinese phone, 2 SIM) and 9 of 10 programs to test sensors, that I installed in the phone, show me three sensors CM3623 (Capella) Proximity/Ligth, AMI304 (Aichi Steel) Orientation/Magnetic and MT6516 (The Android Source Proyect) Acelerometer, but only the acelerometer works, show data and works with other software installed, the others not.
I wonder if the software can report the sensors but they are not physically installed on the phone. Is this possible?
- June 9, 2011 at 9:44 PM
Some H3000 specifications:
- OS: Android 2.2
- CPU: MediaTek MTK6516 416MHZ
- June 9, 2011 at 10:17 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Anonymous, everything is possible. :-) The sensors are exposed by their drivers. If they took the image from a device that has those sensors but they failed to provide these sensors in hardware then this could produce exactly the symptoms that you experience.
- June 9, 2011 at 10:36 PM
What do you mean wiht "image"?
- June 9, 2011 at 11:19 PM
- Jairo Gutierrez (ex-Anonimous) said...
When You say image mean the ROM?
- June 9, 2011 at 11:33 PM
Exploring the diectories of the phone in the "\system\lib\hw\" I had found:
The MT6516 is the only sensor that works...
- June 10, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Gutierrez, I don't know this particular type of phone but it seems to me that it should have all the usual sensors. My feeling is that your phone is broken.
- June 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- Thomas said...
Great article.
I used some of your ideas to implement an abnormal magnetic field notification in Compastic! a little compass app I wrote.
The code is actually OS on google code @ code.google.com/p/compastic and I have a little blog on it + using maps and locations @ compastic.blogger.com
- July 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Óscar Rivas said...
Asombroso, muchas gracias. Me has ahorrado cientos de horas de pruebas.
Muchas Gracias. En serio.
Thank you very much!!!!
- August 26, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- jumpjack said...
I can't understand where the log is stored!
- October 4, 2011 at 8:56 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
jumpjack, the log is stored at /sdcard/capture.csv
- October 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM
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- October 29, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- divdav said...
Hi, thanks for the article and app.
How easy would it be to only log sensor data when the headphone media button is pressed using?
Would only logging data when the button is pressed, say for example every minute or so, use a lot less power than logging all the time?
- October 29, 2011 at 8:33 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
divdav, look at this post
- October 29, 2011 at 9:26 PM
- divdav said...
Basically what I want to do is use my phone attached to my dslr camera to record compass/pitch/roll/yaw data for every photo I take. Ideally I would be able to go out for a few hours to take photos and not worry about the phone battery life. Your power saving post you linked to is interesting but probably wouldn't work for my purposes as the camera is likely to be moving around all the time between taking photos.
My plan is to use a timer/relay circuit connected to the camera's hot shoe flash connector to effectively press the media button whenever I take a photo, letting the phone application know to record the data at that moment.
Do you think this is possible? Do you think the delay between activating the media button and logging the compass data would be more than a second?
I'm new to this and trying to get an idea if it's all possible so your blog and advice is really appreciated!
- October 30, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Divdav, I have no idea, I have never worked with the camera. All I know is that you don't have to sample the compass, you need just one measurement when the picture is taken.
- October 30, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Shailly Panchal said...
Hi.grt article. :) I ahev taken up a very complicated project n i ahve very much less time to complete it.Is it possible to interface android(galaxy Y)with ultrasonic sensor(PING)? plz help me out.i dont know embedded programming .so are there any boards which are compatible with android. IOIO android board is one but its not compatible with glxy Y and propbridge m not sure whr to buy?
- February 29, 2012 at 2:01 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Shailly, the only "easy" way I can see to communicate with an external sensor is Bluetooth. Does your sensor support Bluetooth?
- March 1, 2012 at 12:17 PM
how to interface the gravity sensor of android to a x bee
- March 5, 2012 at 7:45 PM
- blazivic said...
- July 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- blazivic said...
one question though:
what is the interval time between the samples saved in the capture.csv??
- July 26, 2012 at 3:20 PM
what is the nominal range of the proximity sensor? can it be increased?
- August 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- -S said...
Awesome article!
May I know if there is such thing as algorithms for sensors.
I want to make use of sensors to detect nearby wifi
- December 14, 2012 at 6:12 AM
- shashank said...
Gud morning Sir ,
I need an hint for Android Phone sensing the action of human or car ..... when car is going fast it should able to note speed of the car .... It should give all sensing like if any thing is placed near phone then it should recognise that .... Please help me out
- January 13, 2013 at 6:31 AM
- Marzieh said...
Thanks for the information.
I'm looking for an app on Android to log heading/direction data of the smartphone.
I found 2 which are GPS based but I 'm looking for one for indoor.I appreciate any comments.
- February 11, 2013 at 4:09 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
Marzieh, I didn't develop an app but I did develop a prototype. Check it out here.
- February 20, 2013 at 6:29 PM
Hi guys, i need some help with my project. I want to build an android app that detects bumps on the road using the smartphone sensor "accelerometer" that measure the intensity of vibration when the vehicle hits the bump, and then the smartphone GPS is used to locate the bump. Well my problem is: how we can measure the intensity of vibration using the acceleration????
Thank you for any help you can give me
- September 18, 2017 at 10:02 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Lima, is this presentation a good starting point?
Sensor fusion between car and smartphone
Start with slide 34.
- September 27, 2017 at 12:49 PM


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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Stitching with Soft Faded Colors
This first one revisits the idea of several patched layers...
It features several vintage fabrics, including the vintage linen base and that cute little flower print, as well as a couple of lovely shot cottons.
Lot's of fun embroidered elements on this one!
This second piece is very small, a mere 1.75" x 2.5".
Like previous pieces, it's also made from vintage linens and shot cottons, and along with the hand stitched touches, this one also has a cute little vintage mother-of pearl button.
For more on these works please see here and here.
14 comments:
- Stephanie said...
The second tiny piece of art could make a very wonderful lapel pin. Then you could wear your art. Love the softness of the colors.
- August 18, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Colleen Kole said...
These are really beautiful and your embroidery exquisite.
- August 18, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Needled Mom said...
Really beautiful!!!!
- August 18, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Small stories as we move towards fall. Lovely. xox Corrine
- August 18, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Kit said...
I love this series...
- August 18, 2011 at 10:47 PM
- Sujata said...
It is amazing how much detail you put in the tiniest pieces! I like these faded colors.
- August 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM
I really love your work! I also am inspired by agricultural architecture :) Just wondering if you get your shot cottons locally-- I live in the same area as you and look for them everywhere, but haven't had much success. Thanks!
- August 19, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Victoria said...
Thanks to each of you. :0)
Anonymous, I use to get the shot cottons at a local fabric shop a couple of years ago, but they no longer carry them. I have asked repeatedly for them to restock, they always say they will, but so far haven't. Now I purchase them on line, but it is getting harder to find them.
- August 19, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- Diane J. Evans said...
Proof, once again, that great things come in small packages -- these are lovely!
- August 19, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- sweetypie said...
oh, they are sooo lovely...from tina rose of sweetypie50
- August 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM
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- Nina Lise Moen said...
I love your Rimmed in red series so much; the vintage fabics add so much softness and wonderful colours to the pieces. And the embroiered buttons - wow!
- August 27, 2011 at 2:16 AM
- Sherri ~ daintytime said...
Sweet & detailed work!
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- Mary Lou Weidman said...
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Vanessa Hudgens Sucker Punches Zac Efron — Gets Sexy Out With Josh Hutcherson!
Her movie 'Sucker Punch' almost hit No.1, so Vanessa is riding high — and sure looks way over Zac Efron! Baring her belly piercing, she hit the Lakers game with Josh! Exclusive details!
Vanessa Hudgens looked hot to trot as she stepped out with co-star Josh Hutcherson in LA this weekend.
Wearing a cropped top reading "Lakers Are For Lovers," she wasn't shy about showing off her belly-piercing and bouncing up out of her Staples Center seat as she rocked low-riding bell-bottom jeans, a big, wide belt and a long set of beads. Very rocker-hippie chic!
An eyewitness sitting behind the duo said it looked like they were "having a blast." An insider says, "They were laughing and smiling the whole time, dancing in their seats whenever a good song came on. They ate pizza and chatted while cheering on the Lakers and occasionally gave Kobe Bryant and the rest of the team standing ovations. Vanessa often jumped up, clapping with her hands above her head. When the Laker Girls came out, Josh barely paid attention, leaning into Vanessa to hear what she had to say."
Vanessa has reason to be happy — Sucker Punch, her new girl-power action flick, hit No.2 as the box-office with a take of $19 million, edged out only by Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.
If Vanessa, 22, is still carrying a torch for Zac Efron, it isn't showing. She's been all over with Josh, even at the premiere of her new hit film Sucker Punch — as well as dirty dancing with Brittany Snow and another girlfriend.
After photos surfaced of Vanessa hopping off Josh's motorcycle — the two star in the upcoming film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – rumors began swirling that this was Vanessa's rebound.
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What to watch for on election night
A year before President Barack Obama's fate is decided, the most dedicated voters will begin to show their hands in a number of down-ballot races across the country.
There's just one federal contest Tuesday — a special election primary in Oregon to select nominees for former Rep. David Wu's seat — but that doesn't mean the parties won't try to draw larger lessons from the tallies.
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Here is POLITICO's tip sheet of what to watch Tuesday as the results roll in:
Labor's chance to strike back
Three months after a muddled recall result in Wisconsin, labor has a fresh chance to regroup in Ohio, another key industrial Midwest battleground that will be crucial to Obama in 2012.
A ballot initiative to repeal a law that curtailed collective-bargaining rights — more commonly known as Issue 2 — has drawn an outpouring of national interest and millions of undisclosed dollars.
While ballot issues are notoriously difficult to pin down, polls have predicted a solid win for the unions, which have seized on the issue to bolster dwindled support.
A repeal would deal a resounding blow to Gov. John Kasich and embolden progressives hoping to validate their pushback in other states.
"It's a referendum in the most purple state in America about whether or not the newly empowered right is committing electoral suicide by overreach," said the AFL-CIO's Jeff Hauser.
If they are successful, count on Democrats to hang the defeat around the necks of the GOP presidential nominee and Josh Mandel, a Senate candidate.
But Republicans could earn a split decision if a separate initiative designed to invalidate part of Obama's health care reform law passes.
The Beshear blueprint
Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear is headed for a resounding victory in a culturally conservative state saddled with high unemployment.
By almost every metric, Kentucky should've been ripe territory for Republicans. But the Beshear campaign's meticulous strategy stopped the race from getting close.
Its laser focus on positioning Beshear as a fiscally responsible, steady hand inoculated the first-term governor from attempts to tie him to Obama.
The Beshear team also ruthlessly assailed state Senate President David Williams as a brusque and prickly career politician.
"We never wanted Williams to get momentum, and [we] wanted to define the race before he had a chance to," said campaign manager Bill Hyers.


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One of the most striking Metro apps to be included in Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview was called Finance. It was developed by the company's Bing team, and it pulled in a variety of financial data—from business articles to stock prices—which was displayed in typical Metro fashion. Even for those users not remotely interested in Finance, it was a great example of everything a Metro app could and should be.
Imagine our surprise, then, to discover that the Bing team has since developed another three apps for the Windows 8 Release Preview: News, Sports, and Travel. Naturally, each app borrows a similar look and feel from Finance, with a big-picture cover and similar layout grid, but there are some important functional differences between the three.
After launching the app, you're treated to a big-picture view of one of the day's top stories. A swipe to the right reveals individual sections, such as US, World, Technology, and Business—all of which are a part of the so-called "Bing Daily." These articles are culled from a variety of sources—primarily wire services such as Reuters and AP—and clicking on a headline will reveal a clean, multicolumned reading mode, similar to a traditional newspaper view. In a sense, it's a glorified feed reader, but with some smart filters to bring top stories to the surface.
There's a menu option where you can customize the app's sources, with a huge swath of publications dealing in world news, politics, science, gaming, and local coverage. (Ars Technica is included alongside other online technology publications—you could be reading this very article from within the app right now!) You can actually browse the content from each of these sources individually, but don't expect the same, columned reading interface. Only stories viewed through the Bing Daily front page get the newspaper treatment—everything else is opened in Internet Explorer, which is somewhat jarring to say the least. It breaks the illusion of the Metro app.
You can also add additional sources of your choosing, and customize what's displayed in a special My News section of the app. Also handy is the ability to feed search topics or phrases into Bing and build entire sections from the results. However—and this is a small gripe—it would be nice to see author bylines listed alongside headlines and publication names too.
This is, without a doubt, the nicest and most fully featured app of the bunch. Sports also opens with a gorgeous full-screen image and news-of-the-day pick, but the app goes much deeper than just news. For example, if you scroll or swipe to the right, you can add one or more favorite teams, which creates comprehensive landing pages full of schedules, stats, player rosters and news, some of which you can see in the Toronto Maple Leafs example above.
More impressive is the breadth and depth of supported leagues and sports. You have the option of exploring NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Golf, Formula 1, Premier League and La Liga, which is a pretty good spread. There's also an interesting Best of the Web section, that, as the name implies, displays some of the best sports-related sites from across the Web. It functions a lot like the sources section in News, and includes everything from memorabilia sites to fantasy sports analysis—though, again, you can't read any of them from within the app; you're forced to go through Internet Explorer instead.
Finally, there is Travel. By now, you should get the general gist of how the app looks—with a full-screen image splash—but functionally it is actually the most different. As opposed to focusing on news, the app puts travel destination hubs front and center. You can dive straight into featured cities, or scroll further right to reveal 360°panoramas of popular places, and finally, news. But unfortunately, unlike the other apps, the latter two sections aren't given their own pages—in other words, you can't dive deeper to explore additional articles or panoramas. What you see on the Travel splash page is what you get.
Instead, this is primarily an app for travel exploration and planning. Each destination hub includes an overview/introduction, with airport name, weather, map, and even currency conversion if it's a foreign country. And of course, you get the usual complement of photos, top attractions, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, shopping information and more. The hope is that, if you find a given destination interesting enough, you'll search for a flight and hotel from within the app, powered by travel company Kayak (which also has its own dedicated Windows 8 app). The actual booking process, however—in what is a common trend with this batch of Metro apps—sends you to an Internet Explorer browsing session.
These might be simple apps, but they do a good job of demonstrating what Microsoft has planned for the Metro interface—perhaps more so than most third-party apps available in the Windows Store right now. One can only hope we see more like this from Microsoft as we approach the final release.


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The Foundation Dock has arrived on Kickstarter and looks to provide a docking solution for your iPhone that is quite different to anything else currently available. The dock has a very strong flexible cable which is there to allow you to easily position your iPhone in any viewing angle that suits you. It can be twisted and bent into just about any shape then locked into position to give your iPhone the ultimate support.
The Foundation Dock is an elegant evolution of the iPhone cradle that clears the clutter from your workstation and consolidates your desktop devices into one hub. The Foundation Dock is a solid aluminum CNC machined iPhone dock with a built-in speaker, a microphone, Shielded Audio Line out, 4 additional powered USB ports 3.0, and a mini USB, 3.0.
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Most know I think Ryan is a great coach and I want him here even if Tanny/Sanchez are gone. However, if he continues to be this stubborn or negligent regarding our players its going to be the death of him. While this article specifically is talking about the QB position im talking about the big picture. Sticking with guys like Eric Smith, Leonard, Wayne hunter, Shonn Greene, Westerman, Bart Scott? etc.Rex Ryan's refusal to bench Mark Sanchez will get him fired.
According to ESPN New York's Rich Cimini:
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Ryan said he may consider changes in starting lineup. "We'll look at everything" -- but not QB apparently. #Jets
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The New York Jets are in a tail spin at the midway point of the 2012 NFL season, sitting in last place in the AFC East with a record of 3-5. And while it's not fair to pin the entire thing on Sanchez, there's no doubt that he's a huge part of the problem.
Many fans point to the lack of talent surrounding Sanchez as the reason for his struggles, but when you compare him to guys like Sam Bradford or even Kevin Kolb, it's clear that he's at the bottom of the barrel.
Sanchez 144 272 1,736 52.9% 10 8 7
Bradford 153 249 1,797 61.4% 8 7 2
Kolb 109 183 1,169 59.6% 8 3 2
Which QB would you choose out of these four?
Sam Bradford Kevin Kolb Mark Sanchez Tim Tebow Submit Vote vote to see results
Bradford has an average running game backing him up (No. 18 in the NFL), but he has much less to work with everywhere else than Sanchez. He has been sacked five more times than Sanchez, and his receiving corps (tight end included) makes the one Sanchez is working with in New York look amazing.
Kolb has the worst offensive line in the NFL in front of him. This unit gives up five sacks per game and ranks No. 29 in the league in rushing yards per game. Still, he has managed to get the ball to his receivers and has stayed away from throwing interceptions.
The Jets offense is going nowhere fast. Sanchez looks more and more confused by the week, and his confidence is at an all-time low. He doesn't trust what he sees on the field, and it's clear that the Jets need to try something different.
Ryan's being stubborn, though, in his blind support of Sanchez. His latest remarks, via ESPNNewYork.com's Cimini:
I think Mark gives us the best chance to win, that's how I feel. Can Tim be successful? Yeah, absolutely, and we need to take a look at that as well. But in my opinion, Mark as the starting quarterback gives my football team the best chance to win.
Besides the insane devotion to a guy that continues to play worse and worse, what I don't like about this statement from Ryan is that he's going with his feelings instead of taking a cold, hard look at his team.
"I feel" doesn't get the job done in the NFL.
Hi-res-154839749_crop_exact If not now, then when?
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Ryan, for whatever reason, refuses to make the necessary adjustments to his team. As a result, his position as head coach of the Jets is clearly in jeopardy.
Jon Fox had the guts to go unconventional last season when the Denver Broncos were sinking. His decision to go with Tebow saved his team's season. Ryan needs to take a page from Fox's book and make the change, or he won't be the head coach of the Jets next season.
Sanchez is not the guy, but Tebow might be. At this point in the season, it's worth a try. Ryan's not having any of it, though, and his stubborn devotion to Sanchez will end up being his undoing.
The best player plays. Without competition how good can a team be?
He has been most loyal to Mark Sanchez over anyone on the roster since he was drafted, nurtured him. How did that workout?
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Our only other option is Tebow. LOL, NO.
If McElroy's vagina ever heals up, give him a shot.
I've believed this for a while now. I just hope that by the media talking about it will somehow get through Rex Ryan's stubborn facade. Because what Cimini says is actually true. If Rex goes the entire season with Sanchez and the Jets tank, which is sure to happen with Sanchez as QB, he will get fired.
I particularly enjoyed Rex's comment regarding Marks play this week. Mark looked pretty accurate on some of his throws ... By definition if he was not accurate throughout the game ... HE WAS NOT ACCURATE !
Last edited by Dunnie; 10-29-2012 at 11:47 PM.
We don't have a real backup, that's the problem. Should've kept Stanton....
I wil refer you to statements Rex has said about Sanchez.
He will be our quarterback for as long as Im here, which I hope will be for a long, long time,
"Mark is an outstanding QB"
"I think hes an elite quarterback because he wins the big games and hes a winner."
The only way we will ever rid ourselves of Sanchez is by firing Rex. He will never bench him and will annoint him as next years starter. I repeat Rex will never admit he made a mistake trading up to the 5th pick to select a jag QB who cant get out of the bottom 5 in every important statistic for the last 4 years.
i'm wondering if rex didn't want tebow and is 'rebelling' against the owner's decision to bring him here. so rex is basically saying to woody, i dare you to fire me. b/c if woody firex rex, then he's pretty much got to dump sanchez and maybe tanny too, since tanny brought them here. it's pretty clear that woody loves tebow and rex doesn't. granted, the jets' problems extend far beyond qb, but the qb situation seems to be the battleground where the big guys are standing put.
Rex Ryan should have been fired after the debacle in miami in 2011. If that wasn't bad enough to get him fired, then his admission that he didn't know what was going on within his team should have gotten him fired.
Instead the guy who coached Sanchez to some of his best performances (if it's good enough for Sanchez it should be good enough for his OC) LOL, and showed the leadership the HC should have shown was fired.
It was all Shotty's fault.
Whose fault is it now.
Fall guy #2
Tony Sparano.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA. Rex has shown he is not great at anything. Even his defense is average at best now. It has run its course and Rex Ryan has shown himself to be nothing more then a JAG heed coach. Time to move on.Most know I think Ryan is a great coach
Sanchez is the best qb on the jets roster, him staying with Sanchez will not get him fired. The decision to extend Sanchez like any 20mill player was approved by the owner.
In December if the jets are eliminated from the playoffs, he may start Tebow saying Sanchez is dinged.
Bringing in a new GM may be a good thing for Rex. Since its an administration that did not hire him, maybe Rex would feel more motivated to actually bench starters who are not performing.
Rex is protecting his job. If Sanchez isn't the starter Rex gets fired and Woody brings in a new coach to start over. The only way Rex saves his job is if Sanchez takes them to the playoffs
Which is also the only logical explanation for Sanchez's extension - Tanny is in the same boat - Jets are committed to Sanchez next year too - not allowing the Jets to start over for another year
A new GM is firing Rex in a blink of an eye. No Gm is going to want the media circus that rex brings. Rex is a nightmare for a gm.Bringing in a new GM may be a good thing for Rex.


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Ed Connors is director of business operations at The American Prospect, where he manages the business functions at the magazine. Ed can also be contacted about any advertising and marketing inquiries. Ed is former congressional reporter for the UPI Radio Network who covered many Washington beats during the 1980s and early 1990s before moving to the business side of the industry. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com
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