The Powder Toy Wand!
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I am in the process of creating a wand for the powder toy. A wand? A magic want?! No. The wand will allow you to draw in the powder toy, using an infra red remote control.
I do need someone to give me a hand though, I need someone to add a function into the program, when the return key is hit it draws. Could someone please do this for me? -
for windows users GlovePIE, a Sensor Bar and a Wiimote, I can't remember what program I had for linux but a yum/apt search should throw something up
Glovepie script should go something like
wiimote.a=mouse.leftclick
wiimote.b=mouse.rightclick
mouse.x=wiimote.x
mouse.y=wiimote.y
wiimote.down=[key.ctrl and key.z]
wiimote.left=[key.ctrl and key.x]
wiimote.up=[key.ctrl and key.c]
wiimote.right=[key.ctrl and key.v]
for some reasons I always got dodgey results using mouse.xy=wiimote.xy
its easy enough to write a glovepie script if you read bits of the documentation; I found many uses to annoy teachers in college with it... OSC down port 80 to other comps, randomly making sound effects, locking the mouse/keyboard whenever the teacher tried to use it and unlocking it as soon as he stopped... even had a kill program for when the techy arrived to see whats up... -
Lockheedmartin:Wow! This is a great idea, it's like saving $500 rather than buying a Wii.
If you want a cheap easy commonly supported accelerometer/Ir pointer/bluetooth for your projects you don't need to spend 200 on a wii you can just buy the wiimote for 30-40 and put any infrared source(s) (up to 4) on top of your monitor in this case (or buy an official bar if you really want which is just 2 infrared LED's on a stick) and you'll be having fun sticking it on anything.
