Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

(tautme.github.io)

24 points | by adm4 3 days ago

4 comments

  • ramenat2am 11 minutes ago

    I mean yeah, that's cool as a fun project. And I've also heard about a project that used accelerometers as microphones for surveillance. And while it's doable, even the cheapest crappiest mic would do a much better job at recording sounds for whatever is your goal.

    • jmusall 2 hours ago

      Fun idea and also I didn't know that websites could get access to my accelerometer data. However for me the sample frequency is 50 Hz which is way too low to measure even the lowest string pitch (E2, about 82 Hz).

      • hgomersall 1 hour ago

        If you know you have a single frequency close to an actual frequency of interest, you can use the fact you know you're in an aliased band to get a precise frequency estimate.

        • jonathrg 45 minutes ago

          Presumably there is an antialiasing low pass filter somewhere before JS gets to the data. I have a similar sample rate and it certainly didn't work at all for me.

      • adm4 3 days ago

        guitar detuner that uses accelerometer instead of microphone, it doesn't really work, but amazing to see how sensitive they are.

        • tgv 2 hours ago

          It also shows that it can leak all kinds of other information.

          • codethief 1 hour ago

            …which is why both Android & iOS put high-frequency access to the accelerometer behind an additional permission AFAIR.

        • aa-jv 1 hour ago

          Anyone got a handle on the algorithm required to do this? I've got a pocketable accelerometer-enabled device I'd like to try to implement this on..