23w50 DIY Project: Shake A Bit

According to the author and his daddy, the product seemed to be not sensitive enough, even if the player shakes for a specific number of times, of course quickly, the device still counted lower amounts of shaking. In this situation, the implementation was made with "on shake" block.

We had a discussion and analysis together, it should be something similar as the button bouncing issue that we experienced in 23w18 A Side Lesson of Button Bouncy Issue. The "on button ... pressed" should have a pre-processing behind to regulate the event before reporting to callback, so to reduce the "bouncy" issue in a very detail perspective in a very short time, "on shake" block should act similarly, it might have regulated the "shaking" before returning, i.e. it possibly has a threshold to be broken so to say there is a "shaking" event, and it might possibly has a short time buffering to observe that this is really a "shaking" event, but not an interference or noise from the circuit or environment. So, reasonably, the "on shake" block has reduced the "sensitivity".

Then, the author has tried another solution to catch the "shaking" event, using "acceleration ...", even though it's not exactly mapping to a "shaking" event, but this solution now avoids the unnecessary pre-processing for "shaking" sensing, so then the counting of the shaking looks much more sensitive, the produce is more fun to play!