Several of my project teams this semester will (I hope) use PyGame and the Wiimote in their projects. I had it working fine on Ubuntu but struggled to find an interface that works with Python on Windows XP. Luke pointed me to wiiuse so I wrote a very simple wrapper with ctypes and then wrapped that in a module for PyGame. You can find the code in CVS at SourceForge in pywiiuse. I also uploaded a source release. You’ll need wiiuse.dll on Windows or wiiuse.so on Ubuntu.
Entries Tagged Wiimote
Using the Wiimote with PyGame
January 19th, 2008 — Enabling Technology, Programming, Wiimote
Wiimote Latency
January 10th, 2008 — Wiimote
I’m just beginning to play with the Wiimote as an input device for accessible games so I tried shaking it in time with some music using a little program I already had in place. The accelerometer data seemed very delayed so I decided to check out its latency. My initial experiments described below indicate that it is very low.
Wii Remote Drums
January 6th, 2008 — Enabling Technology, Ideas, Links, Wiimote
Pete sent a pointer to this video demonstrating drumming with the Wii Remote.
Another great Wii remote hack from Johnny Chung Lee
December 21st, 2007 — Enabling Technology, Ideas, Links, Wiimote
Over at Gizmodo is a nice video demonstration of 3D head-tracking for desktop VR using the Wii remote.
Wow! Great Wiimote idea!
November 29th, 2007 — Enabling Technology, Ideas, Links, Wiimote
Wiimote, Rocking Horse Combined to Create Makeshift Racing Sim. Variations on this would be so great for kids with disabilities.