[PD] Wii remote controller and Mac OS X

Andrew Turley aturley at acm.org
Sat Mar 22 07:24:34 CET 2008


I hooked up a [print] to the [hid] object's first outlet. If you do
that you should see a constant stream of messages that look like this:
...
0x002c 561
0x002d 593
0x002e 512
...

0x002c, 0x002d and 0x002e identify the X, Y and Z messages, and the
numbers after them are the values. I was expecting them to show up as
regular gamepad messages, so I actually didn't know that I was getting
them at first.

andy

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
>  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
>  >>>>> skype:gigischinke
>  >>>>> ichat:gigicarlo
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
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