[PD] Fwd: Wii remote controller and Mac OS X

[Andrew Turley]

I meant to send this to the group ...


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From: Andrew Turley <aturley at acm.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [PD] Wii remote controller and Mac OS X
To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>


Hrmm ... well I just hooked up my regular SIXAXIS controller (not the
 GH controller), and I'm not getting the XYZ data either. Sorry about
 that, I assumed it would work the same way.

 And the GH controller is USB, not bluetooth. It is wireless, but they
 use their own communication protocol, not bluetooth. I'm not sure why
 they did that. My only guess is that it saved battery life, or shaved
 $0.50 off the price of the controller.

 andy



 On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
 >
 >
 > It is supposed to give transposition and rotation in XYZ, hence SIXAXIS.
 > That's the hope at least.
 >
 > .hc
 >
 >
 >
 > On Mar 21, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Mike McGonagle 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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