the wiimote is a bluetooth device.


On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Brent Boylan wrote:

> Please excuse my ignorance, but how do you use a wiimote with a PC?
>
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I have just committed code and manual for some opcodes to use wimotes
directly in Csound.  It uses a library called wiiuse which is
supported on Linux and Windows (I have no information about OSX).
  There are 4 opcodes:

  wiiconnect
        to initialise upto 4 wiimotes and to poll the devices

  wiidata
        to read data-- state of buttons, orienaion etc

  wiirange
        to scale outputs fronm wiidata

  wiisend
        set leds and/or rumbles

I would appreciate any feedback from users.  Is this the correct
interface?  What other opcodes are needed?  ....


==John ffitch

It looks like a good solution! Thanks for this addition!

I think that the conversion from any of the Wii data types to other
protocols like MIDI or OSC is best left to do in an orchestra or as
UDOs rather than as opcodes for maximum transparency and pedagogical
benefit to the end user. Will test and report back differences from
the workflow I had been using for the Wiimote.


-David

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM, jpff  wrote:
> I have just committed code and manual for some opcodes to use wimotes
> directly in Csound.  It uses a library called wiiuse which is
> supported on Linux and Windows (I have no information about OSX).
>  There are 4 opcodes:
>
>  wiiconnect
>        to initialise upto 4 wiimotes and to poll the devices
>
>  wiidata
>        to read data-- state of buttons, orienaion etc
>
>  wiirange
>        to scale outputs fronm wiidata
>
>  wiisend
>        set leds and/or rumbles
>
> I would appreciate any feedback from users.  Is this the correct
> interface?  What other opcodes are needed?  ....
>
>
> ==John ffitch
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound"
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Please excuse my ignorance, but how do you use a wiimote with a PC?

Aaah, that makes sense. Thanks.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM, kelly  hirai
 wrote:
> the wiimote is a bluetooth device.
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Brent Boylan wrote:
>
>> Please excuse my ignorance, but how do you use a wiimote with a PC?
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
>> csound"
>>
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> csound"
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Thanks a lot for this!

I have some multichannel panning orchestras that use the wiimote and
this will make it much more easy and efficient without having to deal
with OSC (wiiosc). I'll test this opcodes as soon as I get some time
to do it.

On a side request not related to the wii but related to interfacing
Csound: it would be also great to have a serial port opcode for
interfacing with Arduino (like PD's [comport] object).

Cheers!

Hector


On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:34 PM, jpff  wrote:
> I have just committed code and manual for some opcodes to use wimotes
> directly in Csound.  It uses a library called wiiuse which is
> supported on Linux and Windows (I have no information about OSX).
>  There are 4 opcodes:
>
>  wiiconnect
>        to initialise upto 4 wiimotes and to poll the devices
>
>  wiidata
>        to read data-- state of buttons, orienaion etc
>
>  wiirange
>        to scale outputs fronm wiidata
>
>  wiisend
>        set leds and/or rumbles
>
> I would appreciate any feedback from users.  Is this the correct
> interface?  What other opcodes are needed?  ....
>
>
> ==John ffitch
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound"
>