Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote

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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6 comments.

WiiBits » Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote

Pingback on December 13th, 2007.

[…] Original post by admin […]

Starcraft 2

Comment on December 14th, 2007.

thanks for this vid.
i will try it out.

Jonathan

Comment on December 14th, 2007.

Awesome mod, I wonder how practical something like this would be for some Schools? My daughters school just spent like $15000 on 3 white boards for their vocational Programs.

Ali Qureshi

Comment on January 2nd, 2008.

this guy is sooooooo clever man….thanks dude for the hack…

Balaji

Comment on April 27th, 2008.

instead of the IR PEN can I use my normal TV / VCR remote ? will it work with WIIRemote ??

admin

Comment on April 27th, 2008.

I would not recommend it since a remote is flashing the code corresponding to the button pressed. Depending on when the system samples the remote it may be off for that split second and cause some inaccuracies.

IR LEDs are cheap, you could just make an IR pointer for a few dollars.

http://alan-parekh.vstore.ca/product_info.php/cPath/4_9/products_id/67

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