Wiitard

[sirgolan]

.. that's what my wife keeps calling me for obsessing about the Wiimote. One of the big things I wanted to do with the wiimote is be able to estimate its position/rotation when it can't see the IR LEDs. It isn't possible to do this very accurately, but I was able to put together a program that does this. You can even use it with the nunchuk. It can

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[mrunfix]

hi there.. i have been googling around for a cross platform & cross stack method of getting wiimote data into python. after a few frustrations (pybluez l2cap vista) I have found this chap ,

http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~gb/wp/blog/2008/01/19/using-the-wiimote-with-pygame/#comment-25366

who has kindly wrapped a recent c library wiiuse

http://www.wiiuse.net/

which i can confirm to work perfectly on ubuntu using bluez and on xp using the microsoft stack and even on vista using the toshiba/widcomm stack :-)

i was previously using glovepie and osc, or pybluez

this is fantastic .. :-)

[sirgolan]

I finally got to trying this out. You are right, it's really great. The best part is that it's event driven, so it fits right into the Twisted framework that the rest of my code uses.

nunchuck

[anonymous]

if the wiimote and nunchuck were physically connected (they could make a nifty pistol pointer). i think it may be possible to work out angular rate from differences in the accelerometer readings.. of course this would be limited to the smaller range of the nunchuck accelerometers. :-( but the ir can be used for reorientation when in sight.