Took a break.
So I figured everyone is taking a break from work, school, etc. I could be working twice as hard to finish a bunch of programming stuff. Or take a break and have some fun. Guess which one I chose?
So. With that said. They have released a program which you can sync you Wiimote with and write programs for it. Except that you couldn't use the cool pointing feature to move the mouse. After 5 hours of intense building, and multiple trips to Radioshack I finally got it. I built myself an IR Sensor for my computer. Another hour or two of programming ( No matter how hard I try, it's almost impossible for me to not have fun without programming a bit :P ).
The results is a "sleek" IR sensor bar, built entirely of LEGOS! Color coded with PGF colors I call it Infrared Light Por Good Fun IRLPGF (Por = For in spanish), though it has nothing to do with PGF. Here are a few shit quality pics from, none other then, the lego cam.
The sensor bar fits snugly on my monitor, like a glove. I also built it so that it can free stand. It connects via a USB cable to any computer or Wii.
Also for those of you interested. I made a script for the Wiimote to be used with Half Life/Half Life2 and most HL MODs. Here is the key diagram:
My room is not a mess. I had it looking really clean, but after sodering, and buildig, and resodering. It kind of took on a mess of it's own.
For those of you Wii-ers, or enginerees, or just curious people, who want to know the details of the circuts, math, etc. I'm uploading a video - and a small project site: http://www.grapefruitage.com/marco/wiimii/ which will contain scripts that I wrote for GlovePIE ( Windows wiimote emulator ), also a mirror for tabbed browsing on your Wii Internet! And a bunch of other wii related, wii accesible, fun stuff.
So. With that said. They have released a program which you can sync you Wiimote with and write programs for it. Except that you couldn't use the cool pointing feature to move the mouse. After 5 hours of intense building, and multiple trips to Radioshack I finally got it. I built myself an IR Sensor for my computer. Another hour or two of programming ( No matter how hard I try, it's almost impossible for me to not have fun without programming a bit :P ).
The results is a "sleek" IR sensor bar, built entirely of LEGOS! Color coded with PGF colors I call it Infrared Light Por Good Fun IRLPGF (Por = For in spanish), though it has nothing to do with PGF. Here are a few shit quality pics from, none other then, the lego cam.
The sensor bar fits snugly on my monitor, like a glove. I also built it so that it can free stand. It connects via a USB cable to any computer or Wii.
Also for those of you interested. I made a script for the Wiimote to be used with Half Life/Half Life2 and most HL MODs. Here is the key diagram:
My room is not a mess. I had it looking really clean, but after sodering, and buildig, and resodering. It kind of took on a mess of it's own.
For those of you Wii-ers, or enginerees, or just curious people, who want to know the details of the circuts, math, etc. I'm uploading a video - and a small project site: http://www.grapefruitage.com/marco/wiimii/ which will contain scripts that I wrote for GlovePIE ( Windows wiimote emulator ), also a mirror for tabbed browsing on your Wii Internet! And a bunch of other wii related, wii accesible, fun stuff.