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Wiimote as Multi-Touch Display Controller

Posted by Soulskill on from the amazing-home-projects dept.

Tmack writes "While hard-hacks with the Wiimote are somewhat old news, this particular implementation is quite interesting. Using the infrared camera on the Wiimote, pens with LEDs instead of ink, and an LCD projector, Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University has created software to use them as a (relatively) cheap multi-touch display. Any surface onto which you can project becomes an interactive multi-touch display, as demonstrated in the video at the link. He has the software available for download, along with some other neat projects. Lee has also documented another impressive Wiimote hack.

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  1. I can get one now? by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's this...a way to pass time until the demand for the Wii consoles goes down enough that I don't have to crawl over people to get one? Sign me up!

    Oh...the Wiimotes are out of stock too? *walking away, hanging head*

    1. Re:I can get one now? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      There, there. On to the good news: we still have plenty of PS3's in stock, Mr. Alb3rt.

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    2. Re:I can get one now? by DrWho520 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I have seen Wiimotes everywhere, Buy Buy, Circuit City, Target and Walmart. Maybe they should contract to the Wiimote manufacturer to also start cranking out Wii's.

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  2. Re:sure you can... Re:I can get one now? by damn_registrars · · Score: 2, Funny
    I particularly like option

    (B) the Wiimotes have a higher survival rate than Nintendo expected
    Since this could imply that perhaps Nintendo expected more people to (inadvertently) send their wiimotes crashing through their TVs or sailing across the room...
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  3. Re:My project by BobMcD · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's nothing a little duct-tape can't fix!

  4. Re:sure you can... Re:I can get one now? by beckerist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh man I used to throw my 64 controllers in hissy fits of rage. Whoever the fuck had to play as Oddjob every god damn time was nothing short of a cheater! (Yes, the pun was intended!)