Another review of techBASIC 2.0 – a Hijack compatible app
Steven writes for the TUAW –
Perhaps one of the coolest features of techBASIC 2.0 is the ability to tap into the sensors of your favorite iOS devices. The language provides a way to tap into the accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope, and also to grab your current latitude-longitude, altitude, and more. There’s a separate sensor class for the HiJack hardware, a University of Michigan project to add small sensor packages to iOS devices. The techBASIC blog features an example app showing how to grab readings from a HiJack-connected potentiometer. The potential here is huge — imagine being able to connect HiJack to a thermocouple to grab a temperature log through techBASIC, or to an anemometer to measure and track wind velocity on an iPad or iPhone.
Basically, HiJack was created at the University of Michigan for creating cubic-inch sensor peripherals for mobile phones. HiJack can harvest power and use bandwidth from the cellphone’s headset interface. And techBASIC makes it easy to manipulate data and plot the results from HiJack, making the data more sensible and useful. That’s good to see an excellent app jumps up and works with HiJack to make things easier!
Here’s a previous review of techBASIC and HiJack.
HiJack Development Pack is in-stock now!
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