prop to computer communication

science_geek

i was wondering if anybody here has a program that could accept serial data transmitted from a prop through a xbee to another xbee connected to my computer. what i want to try to do is basic input things like a mouse, only controlled by a wii nunchuck(just a thought). so i want to read input from the prop, then send the data to the comp wirelessly, can something like visual basic from microsoft do it, or is there a better/easier one that i can get testing done quick.

Franklin

The xbees will be talking serial data so any program that can read serial data from a com port will work. Start with whatever you feel most comfortable programming in.

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sylvie369

Sorry, I don't have the code, but I've done essentially that, except it was a Nunchuck connected to a Prop sending data by XBee to a BS2 attached to an LCD screen. It works, and it's pretty straightforward to set up. I've attached the Nunchuck object that I got from the forums. There's XBee stuff in the Object Exchange.

RICoder

science_geek: I'm in the process of doing almost exactly the same thing, in that I have an XBee "control box" i made, that is attached to my computer controlling multiple XBee "devices" around the house (X10 is for whimps). Anyway, I have some code that I wrote in C# that monitors serial data and deals with it as composite messages by raising events. I cannot package it into an .ocx though because I don't have the full version of C#, but I'm happy to give you the source if you want it...and you are using C#...