Lightsword just reached 100.000 installs, its awesome. The new version have 5 hilt options, gesture support, CLASH sounds and color options. Want a pink saber? ok!

Use the force with Lightsword, an app to simulate a light saber in android. I’ve spend some time to fine tune the accelerometer to provide a smooth interaction — you just have to activate the sword and swing your phone around.  Works great at bars Trust me on this one. Now go try it.

Theremin is finally released on Android Market. It’s in alpha stage, but I will be updating it quite a lot. For now it might be used to produce sounds based on the magnetic field around your phone. You can manipulate it using a metal object such as a coin or your ear phones. It might serve as well as a metal detector!

There is a video showing Theremin in action.

I would really appreciate some feedback and feature requests. I hope you enjoy it.

"I'm so much cooler than you guys playing violins..."

Theremins are weird musical instruments. They consist basically of two antennas, the player moves its hands around it, altering the magnetic field. The device then registers this changing, playing creepy sounds. Take a look at this Pato Fu’s song and a lesson on how to operate a Theremin.

So I’ve bought an HTC Tattoo and of course, decided to try to develop apps for it. The whole SDK is amazing!

The concept of a Theremin can be implemented on Android, since the phones have a digital compass and registers the magnetic field in 3 axis (!).  Here is the first prototype and my very first Android app. yey! \o/

Its possible to change the magnetic field registered by this mobile using a coin. The closer the coin gets, the lower is the note. Actually real theremins work in the opposite way

*Update!*

Click here for the first version

Now, those notes are redered .ogg files of C scales =/ Android doesnt have a MIDI toolkit, right? I want to be able to produce my own frequencies, so the user could manipulate them like in a real theremin.