Comments on: Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/ neat fun stuff Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:33:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: ryan http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-405700 ryan Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:26:26 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-405700 Howdy, does anyone know how to configure this program to write an output file of acceleration data? I am trying to perform an experiment in which two Wiimotes are attached to the arms of a double pendulum. I need to save the acceleration data to something like a text file. In the past I was able to do this with DarwiinRemote but the latest version no longer supports this feature. Thank you for any help you can provide, Ryan Howdy, does anyone know how to configure this program to write an output file of acceleration data? I am trying to perform an experiment in which two Wiimotes are attached to the arms of a double pendulum. I need to save the acceleration data to something like a text file.

In the past I was able to do this with DarwiinRemote but the latest version no longer supports this feature.

Thank you for any help you can provide,
Ryan

]]> By: Justin http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-393723 Justin Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:18:25 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-393723 Hey everyone. I am a temple electrical engineering student and we are using the Wiimote in our senior design. I am excited about everything I've read here and am hoping that all this openess can continue. We are planning on using the Wiimote for handicapped children as an interface for a microcontroller. Hoping the students can use it to affect their environment and give them some fun activities in the process. If anyone has any input... throw it out there. Keep in mind that the children are severely mentally, physically, or both impaired... Hey everyone. I am a temple electrical engineering student and we are using the Wiimote in our senior design. I am excited about everything I’ve read here and am hoping that all this openess can continue. We are planning on using the Wiimote for handicapped children as an interface for a microcontroller. Hoping the students can use it to affect their environment and give them some fun activities in the process. If anyone has any input… throw it out there. Keep in mind that the children are severely mentally, physically, or both impaired…

]]> By: Matt Ledding http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-380472 Matt Ledding Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:52:55 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-380472 Hmmm.... google is one up on microsoft in this race... I had a heck of a time connecting a wii-mote to my iogear, which insisted on a password to pair, and I can't get into the iogear site to get the latest drivers. I gave my beloved Zoom, which worked perfectly, to my sister in Canada. (I am based in Madrid, Spain.) Have you seen any linux wii programs that get close to Boon Jin's Smoothboard? (a further development of JC Lee's whiteboard. It is a program that makes me kinda *like* microsoft, and it is written in net, but dunno if it can work in linux with mono, I am out of my depth there.) If there was a linux supergenious who could make it work in Mono, there would be a lot of underfunded schools in Spain and elsewhere that would very much appreciate it... Hmmm…. google is one up on microsoft in this race… I had a heck of a time connecting a wii-mote to my iogear, which insisted on a password to pair, and I can’t get into the iogear site to get the latest drivers. I gave my beloved Zoom, which worked perfectly, to my sister in Canada. (I am based in Madrid, Spain.)

Have you seen any linux wii programs that get close to Boon Jin’s Smoothboard? (a further development of JC Lee’s whiteboard. It is a program that makes me kinda *like* microsoft, and it is written in net, but dunno if it can work in linux with mono, I am out of my depth there.)

If there was a linux supergenious who could make it work in Mono, there would be a lot of underfunded schools in Spain and elsewhere that would very much appreciate it…

]]> By: Michael Jones http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-379115 Michael Jones Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:21:50 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-379115 How much stuff?! Theres not much at all to the WiiMote. The WiiMotes technology is all old nothing is that new. What is new and groundbreaking (And why its became a sucess is the use they've put the technology to. All it is is a bluetooth chip, an accelerometer, an eeprom, an integrated IR object tracker chip, some buttons and a speaker. All of the parts you can buy, the exception obviously is the camera tracker chip which hasn't been make in mass production anywhere else so the most economical way is to take one out a WiiMote. WiiMote isn't advanced in any technological way, its groundbreaking in the way mature technology has been put to use in a way that hasn't been seen before. P.s I dont know what the point of this reply is to be honest, im just bored waiting for a design to synthesize. P.p.s. thanks for the guide! How much stuff?! Theres not much at all to the WiiMote.

The WiiMotes technology is all old nothing is that new. What is new and groundbreaking (And why its became a sucess is the use they’ve put the technology to.

All it is is a bluetooth chip, an accelerometer, an eeprom, an integrated IR object tracker chip, some buttons and a speaker.

All of the parts you can buy, the exception obviously is the camera tracker chip which hasn’t been make in mass production anywhere else so the most economical way is to take one out a WiiMote.

WiiMote isn’t advanced in any technological way, its groundbreaking in the way mature technology has been put to use in a way that hasn’t been seen before.

P.s I dont know what the point of this reply is to be honest, im just bored waiting for a design to synthesize.

P.p.s. thanks for the guide!

]]> By: Alan Parekh http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-353643 Alan Parekh Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:56:46 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-353643 Nice demo Matt, I still can't believe how much stuff is packed into that tiny Wiimote and how open Nintendo made it. I look forward to seeing your other Wii related hacks. :) Nice demo Matt,

I still can’t believe how much stuff is packed into that tiny Wiimote and how open Nintendo made it. I look forward to seeing your other Wii related hacks. :)

]]> By: Scott http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-231262 Scott Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:33:36 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-231262 Hey Matt, Interesting post. Does this Wii hack break any TOS related to your WII hardward? Hey Matt,
Interesting post. Does this Wii hack break any TOS related to your WII hardward?

]]> By: Gregg Hilferding http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-222764 Gregg Hilferding Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:10:13 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-222764 Wii Balance Board, eh? Did you see <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/flying-through-google-earth-at-macworld.html" rel="nofollow">what David Phillip Oster put together for Google Earth</a> at MacWorld? Wii Balance Board, eh? Did you see what David Phillip Oster put together for Google Earth at MacWorld?

]]> By: Snappy http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-222048 Snappy Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:23:51 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-222048 That is really cool and the installation package makes it easy for even avg users. As an aside, with no offense to the writer, it is ironical that a device like the wiimote would get the full GUI treatment while configuration of normal mouse buttons require users to go through manual detection via the terminal. Except for btnx, which was conveniently made unusable in Ubuntu 8.10, there is no easy way to detect mouse btns beyond left+right btns + wheels. Wouldn't it be good if more development effort went into making normal input devices easier to use on the desktop? Devices like mouses that avg users use? :) That is really cool and the installation package makes it easy for even avg users.

As an aside, with no offense to the writer, it is ironical that a device like the wiimote would get the full GUI treatment while configuration of normal mouse buttons require users to go through manual detection via the terminal. Except for btnx, which was conveniently made unusable in Ubuntu 8.10, there is no easy way to detect mouse btns beyond left+right btns + wheels.

Wouldn’t it be good if more development effort went into making normal input devices easier to use on the desktop? Devices like mouses that avg users use? :)

]]> By: Gordon Martin http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-222007 Gordon Martin Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:18:44 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-222007 Hi Matt, thanks for the article! You mentioned the Wii Fit in your comments but not in the main article. Does that software work with the Wii Fit as welll? Hi Matt, thanks for the article!
You mentioned the Wii Fit in your comments but not in the main article. Does that software work with the Wii Fit as welll?

]]> By: Tim Wintle http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wiimote-via-bluetooth/#comment-221894 Tim Wintle Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:10:08 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1834#comment-221894 Very interesting - I've been working on a gaze tracking system, but having issues when the user moves their heads too much - I might go out and get a wiimote to see if I can tie that in. Very interesting – I’ve been working on a gaze tracking system, but having issues when the user moves their heads too much – I might go out and get a wiimote to see if I can tie that in.

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