Wiimote
MIX 08 WPF/Wiimote Show Off Video
Thought I’d take a moment and toss up the WPF/Wiimote video that we submitted to the MIX 08 Show Off competition:
Show Off Winners!
They’ve just posted the Show Off winners from MIX 08, and my Wiimote Visualization squeaked in at number 3. Here is the complete list of winners: Crayon Physics Deluxe by Petri Purho Real Time Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu and Jeff Webber Wii Data Visualization and Multipoint Nonsense by Matthias Shapiro (that’s…
WPF Wiimote Library (Now With Project Files!)
Now that we’ve successfully demoed the Wiimote visualizer in the Open Space at MIX 08 and shown off what we can do at the Show Off event, I need to be a responsible blogger and put the project up… files and all. I have, with Brian Peek’s permission, packaged his managed library in here as…
The Trials and Travails of the Infrared Multipoint
OK, I’ve been waiting to post more on the Wii multipoint for a while, but I’m been waiting to get some kind of mobile infrared light system working. If you’ve watched Johnny Lee’s video, you would get the impression that it’s a 1-2-3 easy a cake thing to do. You would be so wrong. So,…
WPF Wii Multi-Point Tutorials, Part 2: Writing a Code-less Wiimote Program
OK, I hope no one is using my last post as an example of what you should be doing when interfacing the Wiimote with WPF. Because it was completely hack-tastic. Instead, use my new WPF/Wii library. It uses the WPF INotifyPropertyChanged interface to act as an interface so that we can bind the Wiimote data…
WPF Multi-Point Tutorials, Part 1.5: WPF Visualization of Wii Data
Download WPF Wii Data Visualizer (App only, 355K) Download WPF Wii Data Visualizer (Visual Studio 2008 Source, 676K) Warning: The project will not run if your Wii controller isn’t connected to your computer. Using the WPF Wii Data Visualizer (Video) OK, now that we’ve gotten our Wii Controllers all hooked up to our computers, it’s…
WPF Multi-Point Tutorials, Part 1: Connecting the Wiimote Controller
OK, so I’ve taken note of multi-point WPF a couple times now (both times were in regards to Rick Barraza’s Cynergy demo) and I started noticing that people are really interested in this. So I decided to take some time to create a couple tutorials on creating multi-point interfaces in WPF. A point of note:…
WPF Multitouch via Rick Barraza
Last time I was at Microsoft, I spoke briefly (for about 2 hours) with Rick Barraza about the need to get designers into the WPF space and how des/devs (designer developers) can really push forward a technology like WPF. In fact, it was Rick who inspired me to do more work on this blog as a…