Did you know you can use an AirPod to make an 'over-engineered frisbee stat tracker' that calculates spin and speed? No, of course you didn't — but someone's done it, and it works really well
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Repurposing an AirPod as a Frisbee tracker is a reminder that consumer sensors are now a cheap dev kit for niche hardware. If you’re prototyping physical products, default to abusing existing devices for telemetry before you spin custom boards.
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