Thinkpad Ball (Take 1)

Playing with thinkpad ball demo movie.
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[jonkfly]

I think the software utilize the built-in acceleration detection chip of thinkpad, which was primarily for Active Protection System, protecting the data and hard drive in case of the accidentally drop.

[Alltracavenger]

The Active Protection feature which does this started with the T41 and later. My old T40 didn't have this, but my later T41, T42, and T60 all have this.

You can do some pretty neat hacks with it.

[bhdrkrc]

what kind of a company put acceleration chips on their notebooks. of course lenovo

[Stere0123]

not in mine (ibm thinkad r40)

[yomamaspetbeaver]

You are correct, there is a chip on the motherboard that will stop your hard drive if you ever drop your thinkpad

[jmuboy]

How did you do this??

I've 3 ThinkPad's and would like to do such things on them.

Thanks!

[Sanshiro86]

cool

[foodigi]

clever? to say the least...

[nxman77]

Thanks

[joseantonio69]

Very Nice