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interesting. I am sure you could do it with a program and some source hacking!

Well has anyone done it?

Yes, it's possible, I wrote how above.

EDIT: I have tried it and it works.

No sensor blocks or hacking necessary.

With the programs that I wrote about above, you can connect the wiimote, then map (or assign) the tilt of the wiimote to the mouse movement, and the buttons on the wii to keyboard buttons.  like "a" key for the "a" button.  You can then use those keys in your scratch program.

Those programs make your wiimote control your mouse and buttons.  You can then use it to control any windows program... Including Scratch.

(If you need to use the mouse AND control with the tilt of the wiimote, we'll have to figure out another way for scratch to get those commands... that's possible but more complicated.)

So if you want to make this work, try those programs above.  But this may not be easy to do, let me know if I can help.

If there's interest, I'll write a tutorial.

Last edited by AddZero (2010-04-13 15:18:50)

johnnydean1 wrote:

Does it use the tilt sensor like the scratch board

You might be able to... but read this:
Here's 3 ways of getting tilt information into scratch that I see, in order of difficulty:
1. easy. Use GlovePIE's scripting language to map (assign) the tilt to the mouse movements. (like I suggested already.)

2. harder. Use ClovePIE's scripting language to map the tilt to key presses.
but key presses are just on and off.  you might be able to make it so that if it's tilted a little to the right, it barely taps the right arrow key every half a second, if it's all the way tilted it holds the key down.  you can do the same for all 6 tilt directions if you want.  then you write the scratch program to look for those key presses and convert them to a tilt variable, depending on how often the key is pressed.

3. hard.  You might be able to write another program that tricks scratch into thinking it's a sensorboard.  or perhaps GlovePIE can output to that somehow, so you could use the sensorboard blocks. (like tilt)  But that might be much more complicated.

johnnydean1 wrote:

Im getting a bluetooth adaptor soon so Ill try it for myself

You may want to look at these recommendations for bluetooth adaptors for connecting to a wiimote... otherwise it will be a pain or impossible to connect:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/List_of_Working_Bluetooth_Devices

Last edited by AddZero (2010-04-13 18:08:19)

Ok, I had to test this further.  It works pretty well!

Here's the PIE script and scratch file I made to get button and tilt information for scratch:

To make this work, follow my instructions above and copy and paste this script into GlovePIE. 

/*
wiimote 2 scratch by addzero

How to use:
 1. Press "Run" button above.
 2. Start the scratch program. (in scratch or on website.)
 3. Press the "Home" on the wiimote to turn ON and OFF tilt reporting.
    This presses a bunch of keyboard buttons quickly depending on the
    wiimote angle.  (a&d for roll, w&s for pitch The scratch program 
    converts this to tilt information.) 
    ONLY turn this on while the scratch program is active.  
*/

//Key mappings:
Up = wiimote.Right
Down = wiimote.Left
Left = wiimote.Up
Right = wiimote.Down
Z = wiimote.A
X = wiimote.B
C = wiimote.Plus
V = wiimote.Minus
B = wiimote.One
N = wiimote.Two
H = Wiimote.Battery

wiimote.Led1 = true

//toggle acceleration/tilt reporting with Home button
if wiimote.Home = true
 if var.accel = false then
  var.accel = true
  wiimote.Led4 = true
 elseif var.accel=true then
  var.accel = false
  wiimote.Led4 = false
  A=false
  D=false
  W=false
  S=false
 end if
 wait .5 s
end if

//if it's on, tap the wasd keys depending on the roll and pitch
if var.accel= true
 var.time = var.time + 1
 if var.time > 8
  var.time= 1
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothPitch / 10)
  A=true
  else
  A=false
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothPitch / 10) * -1
  D=true
  else
  D=false
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothRoll / 10)
  W=true
  else
  W=false
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothRoll / 10) * -1
  S=true
  else
  S=false
 end if
end if

the script taps the wasd keys to give tilt information.

This scratch file is designed to work with it:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/AddOne/987298


(side notes:
it's cool that you can press all the keys on the wiimote and they all light up, unlike the keyboard, which will only allow a few keys at a time. It should be easy to add multiple wiimote and nunchuck support.  )

Let me know if you try this and it works or you need help with it.

Last edited by AddZero (2010-04-15 02:25:11)

AddZero wrote:

Ok, I had to test this further.  It works pretty well!

Here's the PIE script and scratch file I made to get button and tilt information for scratch:

To make this work, follow my instructions above and copy and paste this script into GlovePIE. 

Code:

/*
wiimote 2 scratch by addzero

How to use:
 1. Press "Run" button above.
 2. Start the scratch program. (in scratch or on website.)
 3. Press the "Home" on the wiimote to turn ON and OFF tilt reporting.
    This presses a bunch of keyboard buttons quickly depending on the
    wiimote angle.  (a&d for roll, w&s for pitch The scratch program 
    converts this to tilt information.) 
    ONLY turn this on while the scratch program is active.  
*/

//Key mappings:
Up = wiimote.Right
Down = wiimote.Left
Left = wiimote.Up
Right = wiimote.Down
Z = wiimote.A
X = wiimote.B
C = wiimote.Plus
V = wiimote.Minus
B = wiimote.One
N = wiimote.Two
H = Wiimote.Battery

wiimote.Led1 = true

//toggle acceleration/tilt reporting with Home button
if wiimote.Home = true
 if var.accel = false then
  var.accel = true
  wiimote.Led4 = true
 elseif var.accel=true then
  var.accel = false
  wiimote.Led4 = false
  A=false
  D=false
  W=false
  S=false
 end if
 wait .5 s
end if

//if it's on, tap the wasd keys depending on the roll and pitch
if var.accel= true
 var.time = var.time + 1
 if var.time > 8
  var.time= 1
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothPitch / 10)
  A=true
  else
  A=false
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothPitch / 10) * -1
  D=true
  else
  D=false
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothRoll / 10)
  W=true
  else
  W=false
 end if
 if var.time < (wiimote.SmoothRoll / 10) * -1
  S=true
  else
  S=false
 end if
end if

the script taps the wasd keys to give tilt information.

This scratch file is designed to work with it:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/AddOne/987298


(side notes:
it's cool that you can press all the keys on the wiimote and they all light up, unlike the keyboard, which will only allow a few keys at a time. It should be easy to add multiple wiimote and nunchuck support.  )

Let me know if you try this and it works or you need help with it.

How about joysticks and gamepads? Would they work?

AddZero wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

How about joysticks and gamepads? Would they work?

Yes, GlovePIE will work with joysticks and all sorts of things...  Rock Band controllers, microphone, ps3 controllers...  then you can program them to do all sorts of fun things... midi instruments, browsing the internet, voice output, gaming controllers...
you can also make the wiimote play sounds, vibrate, and turn on and off the lights.  it's pretty easy to program.

Awesome! Thanks.

kool

Hey I finally got a adaptor and it works perfectly, your script is fantastic!

Well I made a script like this

Key.Right = Wiimote.Down
Key.Up = Wiimote.Right
Key.Down = Wiimote.Left
Key.Left = Wiimote.Up
Key.Space = Wiimote.2

Well with that code you can control most games in Scratch

If you hold it on its side (Like a X-box / PS3)

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