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Categories: Insane, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Why spend thousands on an interactive whiteboard when you can make your own using a wiimote?
Video after the jump.
“Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, multiple pens can be used.
Multitouch: The multitouch demos are custom C# DirectX programs. You may download the source code, but this is provided for developers without support or documentation. The code is built on top of this Wiimote library. Unfortunately, multi-touch capable applications are currently extremely rare. Hopefully, that will change as more developers explore its potential.”
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Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
Looks like the Wiimote can be used for some cool finger controlled application control.
Video after the jump.
“Using an IR led array and some reflective tape, you can track fingers in thin air using the Wii Remote”
Categories: Wii Console Hack, Wiimote Hack.
The Wii DVD hack is here!!!
“Team Symbiote have released a DVD Player for the Wii, now all those Wii modders can jump for joy. It seems as if a lot of hackers were at work on the project and it is a total software solution to get DVDs playing on the Wii. In order to get it working, you have to Burn the application with Clone CD, then boot it in a modded Wii with a homebrew program YAOSM 1.8, when the menu pops up you simply hit Z to unmount, change the disc to a DVD movie and then hit START to play - DVD movies finally playable on the Wii!”
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Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
The standard Wii Remote is converted into a natural tool to interact with a 3D virtual reality environment.
Video after the jump.
“Movie showing how to hack a Wii controller to track its absolute position and orientation in space using a custom-made IR beacon. Shows several examples of 3D graphics applications used with a Wii controller, and a virtual light saber.”
Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
This robot is connected to a computer and the Wiimote is used to drive it around, the robot mounted camera is used to see that the robot is looking at.
Video after the jump.
“This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 wheel drive each controlled by a lego motor, and a pan tilt mount for directing light and the video camera. The Wii Remote talks to a MacBook Pro over bluetooth to modified DarwiinRemote software, and the computer in turn communicates with the robot over a serial port. This robot was designed for and used in a small scale demonstration of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) as an assignment in Intro to Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Designed, built, and programmed by Andrew Hundt, Boris Lipchin, and Ned Fox at CMU.”
Categories: PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Looks like this Wiimote project connects a Wiimote to a computer system to play music samples. I think kids would get a kick out of this.
Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
Who says the Nintendo Wii Remote is all fun and games? It can now be used to detect and extinguish fires!
Video after the jump.
“It has IR sensors which can detect a candle and a bluetooth transciever to communicate back to a host computer. I use a boebot as the robot platform, an arduino, wiimote and a Linux computer.
The wiimote uses its IR sensor to find the candle. It transmits the sensor readings back to the host computer over bluetooth ( see my earlier post for details). A C program running on the host computer reads the sensor data and sends commands back over bluetooth to the wiimote. The wiimote relays those commands to an arduino board over the wiimote’s expansion port. The expansion ports uses the I2C protocol. The arduino then controls the servos (the boebot uses servos modified for continuous rotation) and fan. The fan is controlled by a ULN8023 chip.”
Categories: Wiimote Hack.
What is better than having a huge music collection on your computer? A music collection that can be accessed via you Wiimote!
“BlueTunes is a program that will allow you to use the Nintendo remote (Wiimote) as a remote control for your computer music library (Windows only). Using bluetooth technology, the Wiimote will allow you to control your iTunes collection from 50 feet away. Walls and floors pose no problem at all. Even the Wiimote’s motion sensing is utilized - shake the Wiimote to the right and the next track is played. Best of all, the BlueTunes software is completely free. You will need to purchase a Wiimote if you don’t already have one (a Nintendo Wii is not needed) and a bluetooth transceiver (if your computer isn’t already bluetooth enabled).”
Categories: PC Connect, Wiimote Hack.
No need for expensive acceleration monitoring hardware when you can simply strap a Wiimote in for the ride.
“I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment.
Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, acceleration and even calculate my own 0-60mph times!
So I did. I wrote a script to dump all the g-force readings from the wiimote to a comma separated value file, then did some post processing in MS Excel, and voila, I can see every bump, every curve, my acceleration and braking, and even calculated my current speed using high school physics (v=a*t)
I even convinced my coworker to take me out in his E46 M3 to measure his SMG’s performance
I admit, it’s not super accurate since the wiimote spits out G readings rounded to two decimal places. It also provides other acceleration readings in finer granularity, but I couldn’t figure out what metric it was recording in. I used Gs since I knew it was just the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s/s).”
Categories: Video, Wiimote Hack.
Here is a hack to add an LED to your Wiimote, it isn’t in English but it is quite easy to follow the video to see what is going on. If someone wants to leave a bit of translation in the comments it would be greatly appreciated.
Video after the jump
