WiiMote Mouse Control (IR!)

download: http://homepage.mac.com/ianrickard/wiimote/

Controlling a computer mouse using a Wiimote. This is full IR mode, not accelerometer based. This is using a modified version of DarwiinRemote. The stack of stuff below the monitor is a makeshift sensor bar. Though it's not demoed here, it isn't sensitive to rotation (and even internally tracks the rotation angle). To try it yourself, keep an eye on the wiimodwii.org Bluetooth Remote forum.

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• wii
• wiimote
• bluetooth

[carliviris]

The sensor bar is made out of 2 IR led at the bottom of the screen, we need the code so we can run it, PLEASE

[iniano]

Trying one more time without the URL

Download link is now in the video description.

[Elppax]

holy sh*t I'm looking foward for a windows version of this mod.

[orcman2]

It sucks though.

[ill97]

there is on household hacker how to turn a wiimote into a mouse

[FrostDrizzt]

so if i have a infa red port i can make it work?

[wounsel]

it exists

[marcan42]

Except we had IR working on a PC a while ago already :)

Props to the DarwiinRemote guys for making it work on Macs though! It's good to see that people are using our reverse engineering work to write more usable drivers :)

[CapnCock]

Wow! You guys rock :) I didn't think you'd get IR working on a PC.

[MattTheLoneWolf]

Since the primary source of infrared radiation is heat or thermal radiation, any object which has a temperature radiates in the infrared. Even objects that we think of as being very cold, such as an ice cube, emit infrared. When an object is not quite hot enough to radiate visible light, it will emit most of its energy in the infrared. For example, hot charcoal may not give off light but it does emit infrared radiation which we feel as heat.

[MattTheLoneWolf]

Mmkay people.

A lesson on infrared. Far infrared waves are thermal. Shorter, near infrared waves are not hot at all (like in your TV remote)

[Saturn2888]

Sorry then. Yeah, too many of those jokes you know?

Yeah, well the Wiimote contains a small infrared (IR) camera in it that looks for two IR sources. These can be candles, christmas lights, even TV remote signals if you say, put a book on one of your TV remote's buttons. The sensor bar, if you look at the plug contains two connectors, a positive and negative which translates into: Wii only powers the sensor bar, that's it. There's nothing else to it. That's the neatest part.