[PD] controlling gem camera with wiimote

[Dafydd Hughes]

Has anybody on OS X tried darwiinosc?

http://code.google.com/p/darwiinosc/

I've just installed it and it looks pretty good to me, although I
haven't actually tried to apply it to anything useful yet.

cheers
dafydd

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Luigi Rensinghoff
<luigi.rensinghoff at freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi wiimote-experimantators....
> Looks like some more people experimenting with th wii on OS X, so we cold
> share some thoughts and experiences...
> For know i am using "Osculator" to send OSC Data to PD....because
> 1) It is possible to handle more than one wiimote
> 2) I was able to compile "wiimote" or "aka.wiiremote" on Intel-OS X Tiger,
> but when i create the aka.wiiremote object or load the help-patch i get that
> load_object: Symbol "setup_aka0x2ewiiremote" not found
>  aka.wiiremote 00-1e-35-03-8a-00
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>
>  ---- i will search again vor Readmes describing the setup procedure...i
> guess something is wrong with the setup (unfortunately the original readme
> about the setup procedure from aka.wiiremote is not available on the net any
> more)
>   It took me a while to find out that without the IR-Sensor bar it is only
> possible to get TWO axis. as Roman stated before..
> I have attached two patches, one that i found here, and i adapted it to be
> used with OSCulator and one i was working yesterday (it shouldnt be to
> difficult to adapt it to change the camera-view)
> Still very chaotic - but maybe helpful
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> So anyway, i would be interested to hear how it is processing and what your
> experiments wit the wii are up to..
>
> So one question: There were Threads about porting/adapting the
> wiimote-external to OSX, i think Hans was planning to do that....did you
> start already ?
> How is the current state ?
>
> BTW: i am getting error: pd_vmess: only 5 allowed, since a week or so ??
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> Am 09.05.2008 um 11:33 schrieb Roman Haefeli:
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> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 17:49 +0900, hard off wrote:
>
> you will probably need a middleman program to take the wii data and
> convert it into OSC messages so PD can read it.
> just google " wii + OSC + your operating system" and you should find
> what you need.
> OSCulator (mac) is good.  and someone just said that 'glovepie' is
> good for windows.
>
> then just map the pitch, roll and yaw of the wii remote to the camera
> angle.
>
> you don't get angles directly, but the magnitude of X, Y and Z vectors
> (or more accurately: the accelerations). however, you can calculate
> pitch and roll from the wiimote data. since g (gravity) is parallel to
> the yaw rotation axis, you cannot track the yaw angle.
> the [wiimote-help] by mike wozniewski comes with an example about how to
> do that.
> roman
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