loggair: iOS sensor data logging to Python

loggair for iOS

Apple’s APIs offer lots of interesting data sources to build upon:

• images
• depth data from LiDAR, Stereo, TrueDepth
• accelerometer data
• sensor fusion results from ARKit
• Vision data, like hand, face, body pose data, object or text detections

In order to process such data, you need to get to know the data first. Apple’s documentation will tell you how to obtain the data, but nothing about the characteristics of the data. You will have to explore the data and apparently Apple’s sandbox projects are their intended way to go. But there are tons of tools for data exploration to choose from in the python world. And not just for exploration but also to build up the processing pipeline step by step.

So loggair is a vibe-coded project to select data sources on the iphone, dump the resulting data onto a coupled laptop, and use it in the python ecosystem. Here it is..

Fun fact: after initial build and a few iterations, I am not entirely sure if I would want to maintain and mature ths project. Or just re-vibe-code it for every specific new use case at hand. How disposable are we building our tools?