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This is a short note: I have Atomic ski bots with a warmer built-in, but never actualy have tried to use the feature. Until today. My toes got so cold this time, so they inspired me to do some research and tests. Long story short – a USB charger hardwired to pins 1 and 4 make my boots warm right at the toetips. The voltage suggested ranges from 1.2V to 4.8V, while the USB gives about 5V. This at least lets me make the boots cosy when driving, with a car lighter USB charger. Nice.

Now it is fun. I did not realize that my handset has the accelerometer sensor until I saw the video. I didn’t even know that AIR for Android supports the thing. So I tried, and it worked! I modified the code from previous posts, removing multitouch events and adding simple AccelerometerEvent. This seems quite straightforward, and the only thing I still do not get is why it is called accelerometer while it aparently measures axis tilt, not acceleration.

Runtime check if the hardware supports us:

			if (Accelerometer.isSupported) 
			{ 
				accl = new Accelerometer(); 
				accl.setRequestedUpdateInterval(200); 
				accl.addEventListener(AccelerometerEvent.UPDATE, handleAccelerometer); 
			} else{
				tf.appendText('\naccelerometer NOT supported');
			}

And the actual handler:

		private function handleAccelerometer(e:AccelerometerEvent):void
		{
			var n:int = sprites.length;
			var s:Handle;
 
			// loop through all alive sprites to update their speed
			for(var i:int = 0; i < n ;  i++){
				s = sprites[i];
				s.speedX -= e.accelerationX * 10;
				s.speedY += e.accelerationY * 10;
			}
		}
 
        // this exits the app on any key (event volume up/down!)
		private function handleKey(e:KeyboardEvent):void
		{
			NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
 
		}

Wypłaciłem dziś niewielką kwotę z PayPal. Ponieważ system pracuje w euro, a moje konto niekoniecznie, nastąpiło przeliczenie po kursie. No i tu niespodzianka:
Kurs wymiany: 1 Euro = 3,86084 Złote polskie
Podczas gdy waluty.onet.pl mówią:
USD/PLN Kurs bieżący kupna bid (PLN): 3,9620 Kurs bieżący sprzedaży ask (PLN): 3,9680
Podobną sytuację, tylko w przeciwną stronę opisują na forum money.pl

hm.