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potential wii-mote mouse for a computer?

SpaceRobo24SpaceRobo24 Posts: 2
edited 2008-06-06 05:48 in Propeller 1
I was just curious, could you turn a universal remote into a mouse for your computer?
And if so how could you get the Propeller to comply with your computer as a mouse?
I know some people have been able to use the propeller to make a ps2 gaming controller
so why not a computer?

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  • SpaceRobo24SpaceRobo24 Posts: 2
    edited 2008-06-04 16:43
    Or mabey just getting an actual wii-mote and using the propeller to translate the signals into mouse movements·
  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2008-06-04 20:49
    The propeller can generate PS/2 mouse data, serial mouse data or (with a bit of trickery) HID-USB mouse data..
    So, yes.. it's certainly possible

    Not being familiar with the wii in any way, shape or form, but able to do a google search it appears that the wiimote is a Bluetooth interfaced device with a HID stack already onboard.
    There appear to be numerous projects out there to interface it with various bits of software... so no prop required [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    Getting the Propeller to talk to the wiimote would be far harder than just hooking it up to the PC with a bit of custom software (if that's even required)
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2008-06-04 20:50
    This mouse specification should be useful.. Looks doable..

    www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/mouse.html

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  • janbjanb Posts: 74
    edited 2008-06-06 02:00
    Hi,
    here is $3 solution:
    http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=25&m=204968&g=205518#m205518

    Buy an old USB mechanical mouse and inject pulses to photodiode output for X, Y wheels.

    Works like a charm.
    See this movie- propeller is moving cursor to do simple computation on PC


    Or draws series of nested rectangles


    Benefits:
    - no need to use propeller resources to upload USB object
    - no need for chip converting propeller voltage levels to USB levels.

    Jan
  • SpinHeadSpinHead Posts: 28
    edited 2008-06-06 05:48
    I wonder if the original poster was actually referring to not the wiimote but its nunchucks, which was a topic of discussion a short time ago, fairly simple interface at that.
    would be simple enough to merge the nunchuck data to the output of the usb mouse hack
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