I built a small circuit using an infrared receiver and a PIC24FJ64GB002 microcontroller that acts as USB keyboard. Pressing buttons on the tv remote control sends keystrokes to the PC just as if it is a normal keyboard. So any program on the PC that works with a keyboard should work with it. Here am I trying to play WoW with it.
Sorry about the low volume on the recording.
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Shots from my house and backyard. Camera was loaded with the CHDK interval software. Shutter: 2 seconds, aperture: f/8 and interval: 5 seconds. Watch the sequel at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529eHXPlr7E&feature=response_watch
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Software from http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
Wiimote tracks the infrared pen over the screen. Pen is powered over USB. See my blog http://joshh.uk.to/ for close ups of the pen construction and usb part.
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Materials:
1.USB Bluetooth Adapter
2.Momentary Switch
3.Bic Pen stic grip – love it because the led sits perfectly on top
4.USB cable from an old usb mouse -you can use any usb 2.0 cable (most are 2.0), I just ripped it from my old mouse because it stopped working…like most gigaware products I’ve bought in the past…
5.wiimote
6.tripod – anything works really, as long as you can mount your wii and adjust the angle of elavation. I taped together three acrylic paint tubes, and taped on one of those adjusting combs to lay the wiimote on.
7.solder – diameter 60/40 rosin core
8.wire – 30awg
9.iron – 15 watts is more than enough
10.electrical tape – insulate to prevent short circuits (most useful on the led legs)
11.rotary tool – dremel, craftsman, doesn’t matter. Get one with variable speed, and a bit that can soften up the top of the pen. Then go in with your drill bit. This is to fit the momentary switch into the pen of course. Also to make a small hole at the bottom of the pen so that it leads out to power source.
12.ir led – make sure it’s infrared frequency and not visible frequency, I got mine from an old tv controller no on used anymore. The brighter, the better – remember, the wiimote has a small webcam in it that needs to be able to pick up this light, if it can’t, nothing registers on the pc.
13. Battery – if you’re going to make a portable version, just attach the two wires from the led to the positive and negative poles of the batter. This can be done several ways, the most convenient I would say is to get a battery holder. Getting a single 1.5v battery holder is easier since it won’t require any resistors and it’s easier to replace once it runs out of power.
You can also just spiral the ends of the stripped wires and attach them to either end of each battery using electrical tape, just make sure the contacts are clean, and there’s plenty of exposed wire making contact with the tips of the battery, or you’ll get a weak and unsteady connection.
Important Links:
http://pinouts.ru/SerialPortsCables/usb_cable_pinout.shtml
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
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Made using PS3 eye webcam with IR blocking filter removed and a new filter that only allows 850nm IR light through. The projector is an Optoma EX525ST DLP Short Throw Projector and is mounted on a custom black acrylic stand made by my co-worker Casey at SparkFun. I’m also using the LLP method using two 850nm lasers and beam splitters to create a horizontal line just barely above the projection surface. The lasers are powered by some cables I made and are connected to SparkFun’s USB Breadboard Power Supply. The surface is clear 1/4″ acrylic with a large vellum sheet taped to the underside. The software used is Community Core Vision and Processing running Memo’s MSAFluid TUIO test slightly modified to allow for smoother TUIO inputs. Obviously this is an early video and a lot of calibration is required. Also the video is choppy and the multi-touch is less responsive than normal since I was running both webcams off my laptop along with dual monitors. I’ll record a better version soon once I have the rest of the case created.
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make sure to make a ~/.lircrc file & also enable lirc plugin for the apps, if exist otherwise watch part 3
heres a sample lirc mapping for some programs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7721395&postcount=3
http://lirc.org/
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/
button mapping examples
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LircHowto#Map%20buttons
commands used:
sudo gedit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
irw
LIRC (Linux Infrared remote control) is an open source package that allows users to receive and send infrared signals with a Linux-based computer system.
There is a Microsoft Windows equivalent of LIRC called WinLIRC.
With LIRC and an IR receiver the user can control their computer with almost any infrared remote control (e.g. a TV remote control). The user may for instance control DVD or music playback with their remote control.
One GUI frontend is KDELirc, built on the KDE libraries.
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http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ATI_Remote_Wonder
http://lirc.org/
#supported remotes; or make ur own, see part 2
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/
#commands:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart
lsmod | grep ati
ps -ef | grep lircd
sudo gedit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
irw
sudo gedit /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
to remove lirc:
uninstall these lirc setserial libftdi1
LIRC (Linux Infrared remote control) is an open source package that allows users to receive and send infrared signals with a Linux-based computer system.
There is a Microsoft Windows equivalent of LIRC called WinLIRC.
With LIRC and an IR receiver the user can control their computer with almost any infrared remote control (e.g. a TV remote control). The user may for instance control DVD or music playback with their remote control.
One GUI frontend is KDELirc, built on the KDE libraries.
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Join Drew and Melissa as they countdown the hottest tech products around!
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Hey there, this is a project that we’ve been working on for a few days as part of the Wiimote Project (which you can find by simply Googling it, there is a ton of great information and work being posted). We’ve constructed two infrared LED devices paired with a Nindendo Wii controller, or Wiimote, and a PC with a bluetooth USB dongle. Both devices are simple circuits containing a battery, an LED, resistors, wires, and solder. The first one that we built was the “Wiimote Wiimote,” which is an LED in the form factor of a wiimote-shaped candy dispenser. The second device was built into a glove that uses the fingertips to close the circuit. Also, we should offer a quick apology for being incapable of naming fingers correctly. XDDD
Additionally, we’d like to thank Johnny Lee, Boonjin, and Google (Earth).
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