Turn your Macbook or MacBook Pro into a seismometer.

seismic_cowgirl

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I was going through my latest copy of the Seismological Research Letters and on the back is the section known as the "Electronic Seismologist" In one of the sections, they were reporting on the latest update on some software to turn you MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismometer. The original software (SeisMac) has been around for a couple of years but I've never had the right laptop to apply the software to. So if you want to download the software and try it yourself:

http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html

What the software does is take advantage of the accelerometer that's in your laptop.

Sorry PC dudes, there's no similar software to take advantage of the same hardware built into your laptops but as the article said, someone with the know-how just needs to get around to do it.

Enjoy!
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Wowbagger said:
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