CNET Asia's Michael Tan - Dec 11, 2007:
Johnny Lee (of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University) shows you how to create a cheap electronic whiteboard system using the Wii remote. Basically, the Wii remote is a Bluetooth device. It has four IR cameras on it, and if you use a Bluetooth-capable notebook or PC, you can use the Wii remote as a tracking device for any IR source in the field of view of the Wii remote. If you attach a IR LED on top of a pen, the IR pen can be a "mouse" of sorts.
No Wii required. You'll need Johnny's "Wiimote Whiteboard" software, available for free at his website via CNET Asia. His website includes additional Wii projects.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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Its uses Wii Mote as stylus/lightpen not touch screen..
That guy is good.
nintendo are creating all kind of innovators.. im next
But the camera is inside the controller? Does it only use the IR sensor or does it also have motion sensors inside the controller as well?
I really need a bluetooth adapter now.
Just thought of this... you know you really don't need to do it right on the screen if that's too much of a hassle. Put a plain white sheet of paper in front of your computer and perform a 4-point calibration on it. Then you can draw on the table and have it translate to your computer. Much easier than straining your arm to write on your desktop screen. Of course, I don't have this set up yet, so it might not work.