{"id":277,"date":"2008-01-31T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/01\/31\/wiimote-fun\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T23:05:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T22:05:47","slug":"wiimote-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/01\/31\/wiimote-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiimote fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some while ago, I was considering to buy a gyroscopic mouse from Gyration for my future Media Center, but I&#8217;m becoming more and more convinced I should simply buy a Wiimote instead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There are lots more possibilities while still fulfilling the original needs. The Wiimote <em>IS<\/em> a gyroscopic mouse but adds the following advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IR blaster \/ receiver (1024&#215;768 resolution!!) 4 point tracking @ 100Hz<\/li>\n<li>relatively cheap! (40 EUR)<\/li>\n<li>speaker<\/li>\n<li>joystick and more buttons than standard mouse<\/li>\n<li>on-board storage<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libwiimote.sourceforge.net\/\">programmer<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/hackawii.com\/\">hacker<\/a> friendly<\/li>\n<li>go play multiplayer on a friends console \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After looking at all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/wii\/\">neat programs<\/a> Johnny Lee put together, I guess you understand I can&#8217;t wait to try this out myself \ud83d\ude09 Also, be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/procrastineering.blogspot.com\/\">his blog<\/a> and numerous videos floating around the web.<\/p>\n<p>First time I heard of the cool wiimote possibilities was when reading a<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nofrag.com\/Xfennec\/2007\/nov\/25\/32870-wiimote-replays-et-ecran-ftir-multitouch\/\"> post of Xfennec<\/a>, in which he made a simple showcase of the possibilities with <a href=\"http:\/\/libwiimote.sourceforge.net\">libwiimote<\/a> using his favorite 3D engine Raydium. Be sure to check out the vid. I was really impressed back then, but of course Johnny did a lot more impressive stuff, the guy is a legend by now. Johnny does not use the libwiimote lib, but rather the dotnet <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/coding4fun\/archive\/2007\/03\/14\/1879033.aspx\">WiimoteLib<\/a> (I mention this ref especially for andrasj \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that at first glance the .net lib seems more attractive due to its event based mechanism (internally, it does an async read on a stream in a loop though). The C lib looks a bit more basic but very easy to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some while ago, I was considering to buy a gyroscopic mouse from Gyration for my future Media Center, but I&#8217;m becoming more and more convinced I should simply buy a Wiimote instead \ud83d\ude42 There are lots more possibilities while still fulfilling the original needs. The Wiimote IS a gyroscopic mouse but adds the following advantages: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/01\/31\/wiimote-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wiimote fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}