Bluetooth and Wiimote: a long-term feature request
I've been researching 3-axis accelerometers and have decided to build my own joystick HID unit. This will require custom homemade circuit board construction, though not much of it, and the purchase of two $35 circuit boards from the web. So no problem, it should work great and then I can code ChucK to know the position and orientation of my guitar at any moment in time. ChucK can then do many interesting special effects to the guitar sound with that information, freeing the player from clumsy pedals and such. It should be kewl, but along the way I learned that there are many Bluetooth HID products which would have done the job without any special circuitry at all. In fact, a $50 Wiimote - the remote control for the Wii console game - is a perfect little instrument tracker plus it has buttons and such as well, but ChucK doesn't know how to talk to a Bluetooth sensor. So you can see that there is good reason to add Bluetooth HID to the list of ChucK's features. I wouldn't place it at high priority since the dev team is currently so pressured with feature requests and this is only one application. Still, I wonder if such a feature as Wiimote instrument tracking might help to popularize ChucK? Whatever, just making a feature request. I added it to the bottom of the Wiki feature request list. Keep on ChucKin'! Les Hall (Inventor)
Hi... That sounds very much interesting. I am following the chuck list without actually using chuck, because i use PureData. But i am also a giutarisct and also experimenting with wiiremotes. So I am Using the programm OSCulator to catch the Bluetooth Data from the wiiremote and that works pretty good. So to track the position of the guitar it should be possible by simply attaching IR LED's to the guitar. Just like this guy does http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&feature=related Well, I hope this was of any help or inspiration Have a nive day Luigi Am 17.04.2008 um 10:28 schrieb Inventor-66@comcast.net:
I've been researching 3-axis accelerometers and have decided to build my own joystick HID unit. This will require custom homemade circuit board construction, though not much of it, and the purchase of two $35 circuit boards from the web. So no problem, it should work great and then I can code ChucK to know the position and orientation of my guitar at any moment in time. ChucK can then do many interesting special effects to the guitar sound with that information, freeing the player from clumsy pedals and such.
It should be kewl, but along the way I learned that there are many Bluetooth HID products which would have done the job without any special circuitry at all. In fact, a $50 Wiimote - the remote control for the Wii console game - is a perfect little instrument tracker plus it has buttons and such as well, but ChucK doesn't know how to talk to a Bluetooth sensor.
So you can see that there is good reason to add Bluetooth HID to the list of ChucK's features. I wouldn't place it at high priority since the dev team is currently so pressured with feature requests and this is only one application. Still, I wonder if such a feature as Wiimote instrument tracking might help to popularize ChucK? Whatever, just making a feature request. I added it to the bottom of the Wiki feature request list.
Keep on ChucKin'!
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Luigi Rensinghoff luigi.rensinghoff@freenet.de skype:gigischinke ichat:gigicarlo
Hello,
I have done some Wiimote --> Processing through Java Bluetooth APIs.
It is not very easy to get things working though. Follow this thread:
http://tinyurl.com/2u6a4r (http://processing.org/...)
It might be possible to generate OSC messages from the Wiimote and
have ChucK respond to those, e.g.
http://tinyurl.com/4y57mp (http://beanizer.org/...)
Of course, it would be best to have support directly in ChucK.
michael
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Luigi Rensinghoff
Hi...
That sounds very much interesting. I am following the chuck list without actually using chuck, because i use PureData. But i am also a giutarisct and also experimenting with wiiremotes.
So I am Using the programm OSCulator to catch the Bluetooth Data from the wiiremote and that works pretty good.
So to track the position of the guitar it should be possible by simply attaching IR LED's to the guitar.
Just like this guy does
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&feature=related
Well,
I hope this was of any help or inspiration
Have a nive day
Luigi
Am 17.04.2008 um 10:28 schrieb Inventor-66@comcast.net:
I've been researching 3-axis accelerometers and have decided to build my own joystick HID unit. This will require custom homemade circuit board construction, though not much of it, and the purchase of two $35 circuit boards from the web. So no problem, it should work great and then I can code ChucK to know the position and orientation of my guitar at any moment in time. ChucK can then do many interesting special effects to the guitar sound with that information, freeing the player from clumsy pedals and such.
It should be kewl, but along the way I learned that there are many Bluetooth HID products which would have done the job without any special circuitry at all. In fact, a $50 Wiimote - the remote control for the Wii console game - is a perfect little instrument tracker plus it has buttons and such as well, but ChucK doesn't know how to talk to a Bluetooth sensor.
So you can see that there is good reason to add Bluetooth HID to the list of ChucK's features. I wouldn't place it at high priority since the dev team is currently so pressured with feature requests and this is only one application. Still, I wonder if such a feature as Wiimote instrument tracking might help to popularize ChucK? Whatever, just making a feature request. I added it to the bottom of the Wiki feature request list.
Keep on ChucKin'!
Les Hall (Inventor)
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Luigi Rensinghoff luigi.rensinghoff@freenet.de skype:gigischinke ichat:gigicarlo
On 17/04/2008, Michael Heuer
Of course, it would be best to have support directly in ChucK.
I think Spencer talked about a Alpha version of native Wiimote support in ChucK on OSX some time ago. Maybe he could be persuaded by "a surge of interest" like with the MAUI stuff? "A surge" was apparently 4 people for the Mini, I wonder how large it would need to be for the Wiimote? ;¬) Cheers, Kas.
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