Inertial navigation peripheral/101608

User requirements

• USB connection
  • power and data
• rugged production design
• production design
  • smaller than 3"x3"x1"
• INS capable of tracking heading and travel in 3D (2.5D?) with 75% accuracy

Naming

Every good project/design needs a name!

Suggestion: come up with words that describe our project and then combine them.

• fall
• pic
• image
• box
• dingle
• walk
• run
• move
• step
• pedo
• tag
• foot
• shoe
• world
• sketch
• draw
• paint
• picture
• graph
• ink
• space
• mesh
• motion

Suggested names:

• pedograph
• pedoscope
• inkstep
• inktag
• SQUID
• motionbox
• funbox ("yayyyy")
• motion activated dinglecube
• footstep ("...that's already a word")
• dinglestep
• failbox
• track and hack
• locograph
• locometer

Winner: locograph

Physical form

How will we actually attach this to the XO?

Considerations:

• connection cord length/placement
• cannot interfere with rotation of screen
• stability when running
• shouldn't make laptop difficult to hold

Ideas:

• attach to wireless antenna
• attach to handle and have a spiraled "phone cord" USB cable