Development has been stopped. In the end, project failed to capture position, rotation worked quite well

Tested against Blender 2.79. No plans for porting

Handheld camera Blender addon (client)

This addon allows you to capture yours accelerometer and gyroscope movement data and use it to animate object in your scene in semi real time.

Gyroscope and accelometer data (server)

EW tried to use Arduino + MPU 6050+ ESP8266 https://github.com/mblasiak/GyroController

Maybe it is possible to get data from your phone.

Installation

Download as zip, install as any other addon from user settings.

Usage:

This blender addon is a client, that connects to a server and gets movement data. You need to fill in hostname/ip address and port number. Shortcut:

• ECS to abort
• y to start setting keyframes

Development

Run fake server to provide random data for addon (localhost, port 5000)

python handheld_server.py

Start Blender and connect to pycharm debugger automatically:

./run_blender.sh

Warning:

• calculating accelormeter data to position didn't work in the end, see conclusion in https://github.com/mblasiak/GyroController
• animation will override existing keyframes
• only one object is supported (I do not plan any mocap setup)