Hi,

We are back from IFA 2007 fair in Berlin. We were not really prepared for the interest that The Wiinstrument has produced, but everything went very well—The software appears to be really stable once a Wii remote is connected. As I was forced to practice eight hours per day while demonstrating The Wiinstrument's capabilities, my rhythm skills seem to have really improved… :)

Thanks to all visitors of our stand at IFA fair, your feedback is invaluable! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

A release of version 0.2 for MacOS X, Linux and Windows will be available in a few days on this page. Meanwhile you could try the old 0.1 release (OSX only)…

If you consider buying a Bluetooth dongle for connecting a Wii remote on Windows, please consult the WiiLi wiki first—some Bluetooth devices seem to be incompatible to Wii remotes.

External material

The Wiinstrument as background music: Short video clip of cczwei (ex WDR computerclub) visiting IFA

An interview with ‘Handelsblatt’

An interview with techvideoblog.com

Some images of the event

(Thanks to Robert, a fellow student at University of Potsdam, who took the photos)

Bye,
Sebastian and Tobias / screenfashion.org

Playing drums with your Wii remote in GarageBand? No problem. Here's how you do it…

Hi,

It's finally done. You can download the latest version of The Wiinstrument for Mac OS X and Linux as well as the C++ sources at SourceForge.

The Linux version can be found here and the Mac OS X version here (the application) and here (source code as Xcode project folder).

(Update: Release 0.2b745 fixes a bug and should now work on Intel macs!)

You are using Flash, Director, or Flex on a macintosh and want to use Wii remote input for your application? Till now, there was only one solution: Switching to Windows and using the WiiFlash API. Now, there's another possibility: MoteDaemon.

MoteDaemon discovers Wii remotes in range, connects to them and listens on a TCP socket for incoming connections from your Flash/Flex application. When your application is connected, it instantly receives Wiimote motion and button data in a simple XML format. We decided to provide all sources and a little example Flash application for free. The XML parser is encapsulated in a little class, so it should really be straightforward to use. Have fun with it!

Download it

The application including sources is available as a ZIP archive on SourceForge.

How about WiiFlash app compatibility?

We've already contacted the WiiFlash team—as soon as we get a short documentation of their binary data format, we'll make MoteDaemon compatible to WiiFlash client applications so that they can also run on MacOS X.

Beta

The software is still in beta stage. If you find a bug, we'd be happy if you could report it to us by mail. Crash reports are most helpful when they contain a stack trace to find out where the application crashed exactly: Just include your ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MoteDaemon.crash.log file in the report for this.