[PD] Wii remote controller and Mac OS X

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hmm, so I installed that driver, and now I get the standard gamepad  
data from the device.  Are you able to get the six-axis accelerometer  
data from the device?  that's the real fun stuff.

.hc

On Mar 21, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Andrew Turley wrote:

> For the record, the SIXAXIS controller works well in Mac OS X with  
> this driver:
>
> http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Ps3Controller
>
> I've used that for the Guitar Hero controller. Using the [hid] object
> I get 3 continuous values from the XYZ sensors.
>
> andy
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Mike McGonagle <mjmogo at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>> <hans at eds.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just got a Sony SIXAXIS, I am hoping it is easier to use than the
>>> WiiRemote.  There seems to be more good lowlevel code available for
>>> it, anyway.
>>>
>>> http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/About/WirelessController
>>> http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Accessories/SCPH-98040
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 21, 2008, at 1:00 PM, mark edward grimm wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi Luigi,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the tip on OSculator. im just looking at it
>>>> now. you have it communicating with pd? i just tried
>>>> it out with nodebox real quick and seems to works
>>>> fine...
>>>>
>>>> i also go the wiitar connecting to pd with a 3rd party
>>>> app called "wiitar"... that works fairly decent too!
>>>>
>>>> i haven't got the wii working with darwiiremoteOSC yet
>>>> but seems pretty straight forward.
>>>>
>>>> i would agree it would be nice to have a pd external
>>>> (aka.wiiremote) but for now these solutions seem
>>>> adequate....eh?
>>>>
>>>> i just got these two remotes in the mail from ebay
>>>> yesterday so i have not messed with them too much
>>>> other than making sure they worked... maybe it would
>>>> be nice to have a wiki page or something will all
>>>> wiimote related pd patches/vids/experiments/examples?
>>>>
>>>> ...lots of cool possibilities as a controller i see!!
>>>>
>>>> BTW what else are people doing with the wiimote? i see
>>>> its interfaced with max/msp, and processing also.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- Luigi Rensinghoff <luigi.rensinghoff at freenet.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How is the Progress with the wiiremote external ???
>>>>> (especially Mac-
>>>>> Intel)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have played around with OSculator and its really
>>>>> working fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody else playing around with the Wii ???
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy Easter
>>>>>
>>>>> Luigi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------------------------------------<
>>>>>
>>>>> Luigi Rensinghoff
>>>>> luigi.rensinghoff at freenet.de
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>>>>> ichat:gigicarlo
>>>>>
>>>>>
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