Control your computer with the wii

[Russell]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

we are building it at work

[Russell]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

quick question, how does one measure how far the IR light will travel?

[stefan]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

thats super cool

[Russell]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

I have my 4th year engg project at U of C next year once I get back from my internship and was thinking I could do something with this idea.

[Kor]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

I have my 4th year engg project at U of C next year once I get back from my internship and was thinking I could do something with this idea.

Hooking a wiimote up to a PC is enough for a 4th year engineering project?

[Russell]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

haha they don't want a lot out of us no I would have to do A LOT more. It would be a lot of work to get a prof on board to do something like this as most of the U of C engg profs in ZOO like to do wireless communications stuff, but if I could come up with a good final goal etc it could be cool

[stefan]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

same guy... even cooler idea

[Russell]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

we got it to work at my work, it worked well but did not have that great of range. Would need a better IR

[RONDAL]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

go lick a battery Russ :rofl:

[DayGlow]

Re: Control your computer with the wii

track IR already does this for the PC, it's very popular with the flight sim and racing sim people.

Here's a great video of GTR2 with TrackIR, as well as Matrox's technology to drive 3 displays at the same time. I'd say this is the ultimate setup for racing sims.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hzrWXH8xOEo