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Within the past week, a couple fellows around the web have started scripting the accelerometer couched in Apple PowerBook hard drives, giving the effect of a three-dimensional motion sensor. The amstracker commandline is really all you need to get started, as evidenced by this Python script, which controls iTunes by either “bumping” the laptop to advance a track or by rocking the laptop to move around the playlist.

Joey DeVilla has further challenged the scripting world to turn the PowerBook into an Etch-A-Sketch. So you can reboot your laptop by evoking the familiar Flip-N-Pull-A-Seizure manual restart of the kiddie canvas.

Soon, coding will be an elaborate game of Bop-It!