who needs a level

[getyourbone]

For 99 cents it is accurate to .1 degree.  Too bad I can't afford the phone or monthly fees

Here's the details:

http://www.plaincode.net/mds/site/clinometer/

Been about a year since I stopped by to read the festool gossip.  Glad to see there is as much as ever.

Steve

 

[sw1211]

Just get an iTouch, it'll run the same apps, no monthly fees.

 

[daves1996]

When are they going to have all these apps for my BB Storm?

Dave

 

[Peterm]

Thanks for the heads-up on this. I just bought it, spent two minutes calibrating it and have to say it's bang-on when compared to my Bosch digital levels; I think I'll be using this a lot

Thanks again, Pete.

 

[Dave Ronyak]

That device is Amazing and somewhat Scary to me. 

I don't have one of these fancy iPhones or an iPod, but reading the linked page made me realize there are other potential uses for this device provided there is software to run it.

With all those (5) accelerometers and built-in memory, this device shouldcan completely record all motion that it goes through.  Thus, it could be used to improve your golf swing, your handsawing technique, as a substitute for your Wii handheld device, to record and help you improve your lap times on a race track, replacing a $200 G-Analyst.  And since it is normally in communication with cell phone towers (and maybe GPS), through its telemetry functions Big Brother can follow your every movement.  Even George Orwell might be impressed or dismayed.  What is Jack on 24 hours doing with his?  (I have not watched this season.)

Dave R.

 

[Tinker]

i looked thru the entire pitch.  After first few sentences, i just skimmed and really did not see much sense in the whole thing for my own use.  I have no level spot anywhere in my house.  Nor are any walls plumb for that matter.  When I first got involved with construction (in 1949 as laborer/apprentice out of HS  Actually, I got involved with plumbing trade 3 years before that, but that is another long story.),  I worked on a lot of old houses.  I leaerned how to match new construction with old "out of whack" construction so that everything matched in.  I later learned how to use a water hose to level floors and foundations and later, when I could afford, i used a dumpy level.  My present WW shop has a floor that was designed of a pitching boat deck.  No spot on the floor is the same level or inclination from level as any spot 4 feet away (maybe slight exageration, but you get the idea)  I make projects that have to end up level on a level floor by using good old parallel and 90? methods.  The several levels I have lying around are now used only as straight edges.

I did locate at the bottom of the page a note about the "old spin the bottle" method.... er.... ah....game. but that's another subject far from interrest in WW'ing.  :
Tinker