https://github.com/cosimo/wiimote-tools

Small fun perl scripts that use the Nintendo Wiimote
https://github.com/cosimo/wiimote-tools

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Small fun perl scripts that use the Nintendo Wiimote

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cosimo/wiimote-tools
• Owner: cosimo
• Created: 2010-05-18T21:56:34.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-05-18T21:58:08.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-21T10:38:43.078Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Perl
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• Size: 9.95 MB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
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wiimote-tools

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Author:        [email protected]

First version: 14/5/2010

URL:           http://github.com/cosimo/wiimote-tools

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A small set of simple and funny scripts that are

meant to be used with a Nintendo Wiimote controller.

== REQUIREMENTS ==

* perl 5.8+

* libcwiimote

  (install with 'sudo apt-get install libcwiimote-dev'

  if you're using Debian/Ubuntu)

* the Linux::Input::Wiimote perl module

  (install with 'sudo cpan Linux::Input::Wiimote')

== INSTRUCTIONS ==

All the scripts below will wait for the wiimote to be put

in discoverable mode when they start.

So, run any of the scripts like the following:

  ./wiimote-joystick

and then press both the '1' and '2' keys together

on the wiimote. This will usually cause the script to

connect to the wiimote. You will see leds blinking.

The script is connected. Do something. Press random

buttons or pretend you're playing drums. Something should

happen... :-)

== DESCRIPTION ==

* wiimote-drumkit

    This is something I made for my small kids, so they could

    just play with sounds. You can write a small config file to

    assign random mp3s/wav/... to each button of the wii.

    Take a look at drumkit.conf or animals.conf as examples.

    Then each time you press a button, or wave the wii in the air

    (pretending you're playing drums), you will hear the corresponding

    sounds.

    Requires 'paplay'.

* wiimote-joystick

    This is a quick hack that I put together to use the wiimote

    together with any of my favorite games as a digital joystick.

    I can use it to play with mame, of course with legal roms

    or c64 emulators (with games I of course owned when I was a kid)

    and so on.

    Currently it works well with a few games, because of the way the

    keys are sent to X11, and it works really bad with other games,

    because of the way the keys are sent to X11.

    Requires 'X11::GUITest', install with 'sudo cpan X11::GUITest'.

* wiimote-conductor

    Can control the speed of a movie or song by pretending to

    use the wiimote like a orchestra conductor would.

    It's a bit sucky because it doesn't get the actual tempo

    from the sound, so you have to pretend the normal (1.0x) speed

    is represented by wii-beats distanced by 1 second.

    So if you want to double the speed of the movie/song, you

    have to move the wii in the air every 0.5 seconds.

    Pretty lame, eh? :)

    Requires 'Audio::Play::MPlayer' with a patch to add

    the 'speed' command.