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Wii Guitar

John Carr — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:11:49 +0000

I’ve just gotten Guitar Hero 3 for Wii (despite not having a Wii). The Guitar controller connects to my wiimote, and then I can use the bluetooth built in to my laptop to play Frets on Fire with a guitar-like thing. Awesome fun, and very Linux friendly. Debian and Ubuntu users can just apt-get the cwiid driver (you need the wminput package) and use the configuration from here:

# wiiguitar profile for FOF Classic.Down=KEY_ENTER #Strum Classic.Dpad.X = ABS_X Classic.Dpad.Y = ABS_Y Classic.LStick.X = ABS_HAT0X Classic.LStick.Y = ABS_HAT0Y Classic.RStick.X = ABS_HAT1X Classic.RStick.Y = ABS_HAT1Y Classic.A = KEY_F1 #First Fret starting at top of wiiguitar Classic.B = KEY_F2 #Second Fret Classic.X = KEY_F3 #Third Fret Classic.Y = KEY_F4 #Forth Fret Classic.Minus = BTN_SELECT Classic.Plus = BTN_START Classic.Home = BTN_MODE Classic.L = BTN_TL Classic.R = BTN_TR Classic.ZL = KEY_F5 #Fifth Fret Classic.ZR = BTN_TR2

I have that saved as ~/.fof and just run sudo wminput -c ~/.fof before i start frets on fire. Fun!

Back to practicing!

WMD Driver

John Carr — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:43 +0000

Just did an svn up on wmd-trunk, which is the subversion tree for the linux wiimote driver. Things have been progressing nicely since I last checked on it.. and there is now an interesting little ball demo. Still a long way to go before I can use it to play CSS, methinks. But it shouldn’t be long before we have Wiimote pong or something similar
If you have a bluetooth dongle and a Wiimote sat doing nothing then go check it out!

Wiimote!

John Carr — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:01:06 +0000

So today I went to the cinema. Two cinemas, actually. Neither had Tenacious D showing. Quite annoying! So I went shopping… what a waste of time. Couldn’t find anything I wanted. The only present I got was a wiimote for myself! It was a bit of a gamble because i’d never actually gotten my bluetooth dongle working and i wasn’t sure how much i’d need the “sensor bar”. Well after a tiny bit of googling (and downloading, and installing a few bits) i was presented with this message:

Looking for Wiimote services at address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Victory! We have found that Wiimote!
We are now connected to Wiimote at address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

It then buzzed me and flashed a bit So far the driver plots a graph of my movements but without IR it can’t be used for mouse stuff… so far. The code is python though, so i’ve already had a play at hacking on it.