[PD] Wii remote
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Sun Dec 17 17:57:42 CET 2006
Oops, forgot to include the ever important init statement. It
doesn't crash now, hopefully it actually works:

.hc
On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:44 AM, nick weldin wrote:
> Hi Hans
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> Unfortunately its not working for me at the moment.
>
> The object creates ok, but pd quits with no warnings or dialogs
> whenever you send a message into the inlet.
>
> I'm trying it with Pd-0.39.2-extended-test5, Mac 10.4.8
>
> Will try it on another machine just to make sure its not something
> with his machine.
>
> Happy to try things if anyone has suggestions.
>
> I downloaded the max demo and the max object works and syncs to the
> wii remote - I will make something in Max for now as I have 30 days
> of the demo to go.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nick
>
>
>> On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>> Hallo,
>>> nick weldin hat gesagt: // nick weldin wrote:
>>>> There is a max external for the Wii remote here
>>>> http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/#aka_wiiremote
>>>>
>>>> How big a job would it be to port it to PD - anyone up for it ? my
>>>> coding skills are minimal.
>>>
>>> I guess, the best would be to just wait until the HID drivers
>>> stabilize a bit and then use [hid] to talk to the Wii, maybe adding
>>> some specialized abstractions later. Here are some interesting URLs:
>>>
>>> http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Wiimote
>>> http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Wiimote_driver
>>>
>>> I'll get a Wii next year, so I'd be trying that route for sure then.
>>
>> Right now [hid] and the next gen [hidio] use the HID APIs on Mac
>> OS X and Windows, and the Linux input.h API. So those APIs would
>> have to support that device in order to use the WiiRemote. From
>> what I have seen, it seems to be a different API. Now that I see
>> it, I'll need to think about how to best handle it. Plus the
>> different OS's implementations could be very, very different.
>>
>> The port seems to be pretty straightforward, most Max objects are
>> pretty easy to port to Pd, and vice versa. It builds but with a
>> ton of compiler warnings. It seems as tho the original programmer
>> ignored them with the Max object. Give it a try and let me know
>> if it works for you:
>>
>> Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:wiiremote.pd_darwin.bz2
>> ( / ) (00B84091)
>>
>> Also, write up a help file and an example patch and I'll include it.
>> This will be part of the nightly builds on Mac OS X now in the
>> "io" libdir. FYI: I dropped the "aka." prefix on the Pd version.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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