Unlocking the Potential of the Chumby Accelerometer

The Chumby contains a very capable accelerometer, the Freescale MMA7455. However, the accelerometer daemon running on the Chumby is not optimzed for applications that need rapid updates from the accelerometer. This article explains how you can write C code that unlocks the full potential of the Chumby accelerometer.

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Two Workarounds To Try if Your Chumby Stop Responding to ssh Commands

When I use ssh to access my Chumby from my Windows 7 machine, the shell stops responding after about 30 minutes. After a bit of searching, I discovered that other people have this problem too. In this post I summarize what I found, and I provide two techniques to work around this problem.

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