I thought I read that the ir-leds are angled slightly outward. Perhaps the amount of light detected from each is affected by the angle, which could be used to solidify the position?<br><br>-Chuckk<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roman Haefeli</b> <<a href="mailto:reduzierer@yahoo.de">reduzierer@yahoo.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 01:12 -0700, punchik punchik wrote:<br>> Hi , is there any way of using the ir sensor bar with<br>> the wimote in pure data?<br><br>yes, that is possible. the sensor bar is nothing else but two groups of
<br>ir-leds, that are used as a reference point in space. you couls also use<br>a lighter (or up to four) instead. the wiimote just sends you the<br>coordinates of the reference points' (ir-led, lighter, whatever)<br>
projection on the wiimote's intenal ir-camera.<br><br>> Is it posible to track the<br>> movements of people carrying wimotes in real space<br>> with puredata?<br><br>no, that is not quite possible with the sensors, that wiimote is
<br>equipped with. it has 3 accelerometers (x, y and z), but it is very<br>difficult (probably impossible) to calculate a position out of this<br>data. it would be possible to calculate the position with the data from<br>
the ir-camera, but then you would need at least 3 reference points and<br>they would have to be always visible for the cam. since the angle is<br>quite narrow, it is probably not too suitable for position tracking.<br><br>
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