Wii controller

Design Concepts
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I wasn’t sure whether this should go in Design Concepts or Miscellaneous… I won’t use this information, but if someone else does, then this in in the right place :wink:

Anyway! I discovered that Wii Nunchuk controllers communicate with the wiimote over IIC. This opens possibilities to automate input to the wii/PC by making a ‘midibox in nunchuk clothing’ or to use the nunchuk as input for your midibox…

Random miscellaneous babble or random design concept, you choose :smiley:

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Well, with a wiimote you surely can use the nunchuck with one of the existing Wii remote mouse drivers.

I know you can use RM-X Automation with the Wii remote itself at least.

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cool discovery :slight_smile:

I’m currently developing midimouse v06 (for Mac OS X 10.4., Intel & PPC)

supporting wiiRemotes.

If anybody is interested in Beta testing that would be great:

http://www.audiocommander.de/downloads/midimouse_071113_0.6.bC.dmg.zip  (440 kB)

(If the link is dead, see the original page )

Regarding the Accelerometer Sensors: The remote (as the Nunchuk) just sends out quite raw data of the sensors and there must be some (in terms of microcontrollers quite complicated) calculations to get Tilt/Roll values. The plain Gravity-Force values of the Accelerometer aren’t that sexy…

Best,

Michael

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Well, with a wiimote you surely can use the nunchuck with one of the existing Wii remote mouse drivers

Yes I’m doing so right now, but that’s not quite what I meant :wink: The idea here was to either:

make it work without the PC

or

Use a midibox to generate fake wii input to the PC or Wii

I’m currently developing midimouse v06 (for Mac OS X 10.4., Intel & PPC)

supporting wiiRemotes.

If anybody is interested in Beta testing that would be great

Waaaah I wanna maaaac!

Regarding the Accelerometer Sensors: The remote (as the Nunchuk) just sends out quite raw data of the sensors and there must be some (in terms of microcontrollers quite complicated) calculations to get Tilt/Roll values. The plain Gravity-Force values of the Accelerometer aren’t that sexy…

I feared as much  :-\

Thanks AC! :smiley:

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Hi,

I found in the german c’t (18/2007, P. 166.) an article about “how to use  a WII on a PC”.

There exist a Software Link to usefull Software inkl. MIDI for Windows.

Maybe usefull for you.

SoftLink (source www.heise.de):

http://www.heise.de/ct/07/18/links/166.shtml

Best Regards

Jack

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Get an I2C or SPI-compatible bluetooth chip? Link it to the wiimote… away you go  ;D

Everything sounds easy in concept, of course!  :o