[PD] Wii remote controller and Mac OS X

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

IIRC, I think there is a linux driver for the wiimote that makes it  
act like a HID, and therefore could be used with [hid].

.hc

On Mar 21, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Daniel Wilcox wrote:

> I use a wiimote in Linux using the cwiid api in my device daemon  
> that grabs joystick and wiimote events and slings them over OSC to pd.
>
> The wiimote has a 3 axis acceleramator and sends the x, y, z  
> positions and you can easily calculate mean acc, roll, and pitch.
>
> You can also access the ir camera.  The wiimote itself determines  
> the spots of light it sees and sends pixel postions aka (140, 100)  
> relative to the resolution on the camera which is about 200x200 if  
> i remember correctly.
>
> I have tested this with candles and you can mess with "virtual  
> sliders" etc by pointing it at a ir source, if you remove the black  
> plastic cover, then the camera pics up regular light sources such  
> as incandescent blubs.
>
> And of course, you get all the button events.
>
> Hans, do you know how many "control" signals this will produce?  
> From what I read in the literature, it sounds like it also has  
> motion controls. Does that mean that it has XYZ sensors? Or does it  
> also have the pitch and yaw sensors as well? It sounds like a Wii  
> has XYZ and pitch and yaw...
>
> Mike
>
>
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