After about three or four meetings, he could finally draw stuff using the pen! Mission accomplished. P what I had built and spent a few lunches with him getting stuff sent up. But I didn't put that in because I wanted to show the battery holder and I don't know how to draw translucent duct tape :(Īnyway, back in class, I showed Mr. There should have been duct tape around the battery pack at the back. However, I have given my best shot at editing a picture (Photoshopping as it's called, but I used GIMP) that looks like the real thing. Connecting a Wiimote and saving it as wm to use later is now as simple as simultaneously pressing 1 + 2 on your Wiimote to make it discoverable then running: wm cwiid.Wiimote () This is however liable to fail a few times and not estabalish a connection but. So I don't really have a picture of the final product. To be able to use the Wiimote we have to import the necessary library so: import cwiid. Now unfortunately nobody in 2007 had a camera, including me. I took things slowly (expected with a burning hot rod in my hands.) and finished the job within the hour. I convinced my dad to drive me to the nearest RadioShack, where I picked up a soldering iron set and all the required parts for about $10. This was the plan for wiring up the whole thing. I would take an old marker and remove the ink cartridge and tip, and in its place put wires, a big battery pack, an IR LED, and a push-button switch. The end goal was to build something like this. When the IR emitter is activated, the Wiimote tells the computer over Bluetooth where it saw the IR light, and the software will then use that data to move the mouse. In this case, the Wiimote will be tracking our homemade IR emitter. If you had a Wii, remember that gray/black flat thing you had to plug in to the Wii? That's the IR emitter, and the Wiimotes track that source of IR. The sensor at the head of the Wiimote is actually an IR sensor. The way it works is that the Wiimote connects to the computer through Bluetooth. The Wiimote Whiteboard, however, costs around $40 for the Wiimote and the raw materials for the IR emitter (assuming you have a laptop and projector). The problem is that a Smartboard costs thousands of dollars. One of those tangents had to do with Johnny Lee's Wiimote Whiteboard, a cheap way of getting Smartboard-like capabilities with just a Wiimote, a laptop, and a homemade IR emitter.Ī Smartboard is like a projector onto a special board which has special tools so you can use marker-like equipment to draw things on the Smartboard. Perkowski liked to go off on tangents during class.
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