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Hi, inspired by populus rad video, I got myself a wiimote, and I started thinking about motion sensing. The wiimote is nice, but I think if you could take the accelerometers and map then directly into a glove, or some other strap kind of thing, or wire it to your guitar and stuff, you could have use of your hand for turning knobs and stuff, and still do cool stuff. I ask that because 4 or 5 years ago we built something *very* *very* similar to the wiimote, with the addition of a laser gyroscope to recognize absolute orientation while standing still, and I kind of know the technology and the way to control it. THe gizmo we built and which was then taken to production is:
link paper is : link
So, I will experiment doing stuff with the wiimote. I was thinking about adding bluetooth support to stompboxes (overkill anyone :] ?? ) so that you can have like a small controlling gizmo on your guitar to dial in your presets and have motion sensing while playing, but I find my ideas kind of bland. If you have awesome you would like to see in that way? The biggest problem is really the wireless aspect of it, bluetooth is cool, but it's a hell of a lot of technological complexity. You can use 800 Mhz radios as well, they are a lot simpler, but i dunno how that turns out to work when you have more devices doing stuff (like your bass players comes along and he has the same controller and both start to talk on the same frequency). Infrared is not really an option I think, and cables from your motion sensor to your app defeat the whole coolness factor of the thing.
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populus
have you checked out the arduino? there's a bluetooth version now...maybe you could use it to interface the wii with any pedals and such? you would have to learn how to code it, but maybe someone has already made a wii decoder for the arduino. with one wii controller and one arduino BT you could potentially control multiple pedals.
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I've used the non-bluetooth version in max/msp with good results, might be worth a look.
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Yeah, I will look into it. In the project I posted above, I wrote the embedded bluetooth stack, which was kind of sucky at the time, but I guess I made a bit of progress in my programming skills, so I guess I'll roll my own, or maybe the arduino if the stack is nice. Thanks for the link 
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mixedtape
it would be so dope to have the wiimote do some live slicing! it's gotta be possible. i'm definitely interesting in anything you come out with. keep us updated please!
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lematt
maybe you could get inspired by that ? link
[edit]i think my post is totally dummy.
you're a total geek daswesen ;)
i think that stompboxes are good 'cause they're PURE ANALOG ! don't touch to it
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