Johnny Lee’s Ingenious Wii Remote Mod (Must See !)
Johnny Chung Lee, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has devised a brilliant hack involving the Wii remote that has opened up a thousand possibilities to gamers, teachers, and developers everywhere in the world. Johhny’s hack requires a little more than $40 worth of hardware to turn the Wiimote into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch touch screen(yes, THE multi-touch) and a head mounted 3D tracker. Just imagine, with only $40 you can turn your ordinary Wiimote into several gadgets that even today still costs thousands of dollars. If you already own a Wii and know where to get the necessary hardware to pull the trick head down to his project site to download the software and let your imagination run wild.
Check out the video from his Ted 2008 presentation that earned him a standing ovation
Johnny Chung Lee Wii Remote Project Page
WiiMote Project Page and Discussion
Johnny Lee’s Blog – Procrastineering
Also check out his original YouTube video on the head tracking project using the WiiMote that was nominated for Best Instructional Video of 2007
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Thanks to Soonyu for sending this in.
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