3. awesome work john.
would an ir modified webcam would provide better resolution?
Posted at 1:21AM on Dec 10th 2007 by Emperor_Dane
4. wow... and to think that' i've been trying to get my school to buy the $50 cord to get the $2k digital whiteboard, which we aren't supposed to use anyway, to work again. /sarcasm
anyway, amazing. i'll have to set up one of these in my house. i've been looking for an easy-yet-awesome way to remotely control my computer from 100+ feet away. sure i could use a remote, but that's not nearly as cool as having a digitally projected version of my screen which i can control by a pen.
Posted at 1:57AM on Dec 10th 2007 by Josh
5. This is friggin cool. How did he connect the wii remote to the PC? Did I miss that part?
Posted at 2:03AM on Dec 10th 2007 by Garret
7. garret: i do not think he said so in the video, but the wiimote connects via bluetooth, so the pc would need a bluetooth adapter on it.
Posted at 2:26AM on Dec 10th 2007 by chewy
8. Is there a similar application of this for webcams instead? Yeah, I know the whole point of this is wiimote hacks but hes just using it for the camera and the camera is just heavily filtered for IR from the sounds of it.
It is very impressive how it all works though. I can't begin to imagine how he got it to process locations based on a single camera and simple calibration.
Posted at 2:31AM on Dec 10th 2007 by awdark
11. Wait a second.. It's possible to have two WiiMotes connected to a computer at a time right? So, couldn't you use a very similar approach to get the position of a light source in 3-dimensions just by using the cameras from 2 remotes?
Posted at 7:53AM on Dec 10th 2007 by Ru
12. #11, I was thinking this the whole time during the demo, not only for 3d, but for handling more points & points that get blocked by the user's body. Would make this work infinitely better imo.
Still that is freakin sweet.
Posted at 8:44AM on Dec 10th 2007 by Justin
14. Amazing! Cool project for my next weekend :D
Posted at 11:41AM on Dec 10th 2007 by Rogier
15. This would go well with Bumptop!
Even without bumptop, I'd like to turn my LCD display with multitouch.
Posted at 12:19PM on Dec 10th 2007 by The Steven
16. Wicked! Now all I have to do is to combine this with my automatic projector calibrator http://www.hackaday.com/2007/11/15/automatic-projector-calibration/ and I'm the coolest bloke in town!
Posted at 1:43PM on Dec 10th 2007 by bramz
17. I want to see Edusim on this surface ! - http://edusim3d.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFsxev-2sk
This is perfect for schools! .. WOW!
Kudos on the Wii-mote hack
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18. Has anyone tapped into the nunchuk yet? A few more buttons jerry-rigged through the port on the mote would allow for more functionality.
Posted at 2:14PM on Dec 10th 2007 by BigD145
19. I guess there are no comercial IR pens available??
I know IR leds are just $1.99 at RadioShack, but if there was one online for $9.99 that ran off watch batteries, I'd buy it just to demo it to teachers and my tech staff.
Guess I'll be breaking out the soldering iron.
Posted at 2:43PM on Dec 10th 2007 by Justin
20. Ohh..I just thought of gutting one of those little single LED keychain lights. Just replace the led and "BINGO", IR pointer.
Posted at 2:43PM on Dec 10th 2007 by Justin
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1. the wiimote...is there anything it can't do?
Posted at 1:11AM on Dec 10th 2007 by binome