More multitouch – Wii-based whiteboard!

Posted by joelgibby on Sunday, March 9, 2008 · 4 Comments 

Update: Johnny’s website has moved. The new site is here:http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Came across Johnny Lee’s work on using the Wiimote as a low-cost IR camera for interacting with displays. He’s got a couple of really neat applications demo’d on his site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

The one that really caught my eye was one that could turn any surface into a multitouch display interface using only a Wiimote and a projecter or LCD panel. Check it out:

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4 Responses to “More multitouch – Wii-based whiteboard!”
  1. Timothy Scheel says:
    March 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Amazing! I’m going to do that with my Wii!

  2. joel says:
    March 16, 2008 at 10:20 am

    It looks like all you really need is a computer with bluetooth adapter and a display device, along with the software you can download at his site.

    Let me know if you manage to get it working – I don’t have bluetooth yet.

  3. Justen Martian says:
    March 16, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    I am going to try it also, I need to get a Wii controller first.

  4. Mireya says:
    May 14, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    What would you do guys do with it?

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