Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

(tautme.github.io)

17 points | by adm4 3 days ago ago

8 comments

  • 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 37 minutes 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.

  • 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 an hour ago

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

  • aa-jv an 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..