Cell Phones can communicate with other devices via Bluetooth (and WiFi)

For example via Bluetooth to a WII remote (the game controller for Nintendo's popular Wii video games):

Proof of concept: Acceleration data demo.

Note: Sample rate was limited to 30Hz because of communication overhead with WII remote.

What was the motion that produced the following graphs?

               

 

 

               

Video of motion. (taken with cell phone)    

                    Interesting side project: Do video analysis of video to confirm data.

 

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