Use your WiiMote as an accelerometer

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Use your WiiMote as an accelerometer

Post by kevo » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:23 am

finally some good use out of GlovePIE

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Post by OverDrive418 » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:53 am

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Post by KrackstaR » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:48 pm

im lost what the hell happend? he used the wii remote to test his acceleration? is that what im getting from this?
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Post by BlackRoseRacing » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:06 pm

KrackstaR wrote:im lost what the hell happend? he used the wii remote to test his acceleration? is that what im getting from this?
Yes, he managed to get his laptop to comunicated with the WII remote and he used the remote as an accelerometer...basically a cheap Gtech performance meter...
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Post by Crashin » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:57 pm

How did he get the laptop to connect with the wiimote? Blue tooth?
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Post by gninja21 » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:23 pm

Yep, the wii remote basically connects via Bluteooth to the Console so as long as the laptop has bluetooth and installed the driver a few people created it can be used as such.
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Post by KrackstaR » Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:19 pm

wow thats amazing i would have never thought...lol
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Post by kevo » Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:41 pm

gninja21 wrote:Yep, the wii remote basically connects via Bluteooth to the Console so as long as the laptop has bluetooth and installed the driver a few people created it can be used as such.

yes, basically the wii has a basic accelerometer built in. Unfortunately it calculates to the nearest decimal so its not super accurate. Still fun for what its worth.
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