apple-silicon-accelerometer

I built this after discovering and open-sourcing the accelerometer signal in Apple Silicon MacBooks (https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer). The sensor reads impact force and vibration data in real time. Haptyk maps that to different sound intensities: soft taps play a quieter click, hard presses play a louder clack. Would love to hear what you think.

Inspired by the recent post where Olivier Bourbonnais figured out how to read the private accelerometer APIs on Apple Silicon macs: https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer I created a set of CLI tools that let you pipe mac sensor data around like modular synth audio. Sensor data is outputted via stdout as a mono audio signal, and then it can be piped through filters and sent to outputs like your speaker, screen-brightness, keyboard-brightness, a TUI visualizer, and more. Some examples of silly things that are possible: lid-angle | speaker # sounds like a theremin as you move th elid sudo accelerometer | metronome | screen-brightness # tap on your palmrest and it will flash to the beat microphone | metronome | speaker # play a tone in sync with whatever beat is audible to the microphone (syncs the phase too)

author here, quick update: the sensor code is now a standalone pip package pip install macimu from macimu import IMU with IMU() as imu: print(imu.latest_accel()) # Sample(x, y, z) in g print(imu.latest_gyro()) # Sample(x, y, z) in deg/s requires sudo. details: https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer