[PD] Wii remote controller and Mac OS X
Andrew Turley
aturley at acm.org
Sat Mar 22 07:28:03 CET 2008
Oops, I should be a little more specific ... what I described was my
experience with the Guitar Hero controller, which as far as I can tell
is just a repackaged SIXAXIS controller that sends a different device
ID. It may be slightly different for the regular SIXAXIS controllers,
but use [print] and see what you get.
andy
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Andrew Turley <aturley at acm.org> wrote:
> 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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