I had no desire to spend a bunch of money trying to figure out what I could make, so I thought to myself: Do I have a means of generating IR signals with something that I can move around? Yes I did. I did some searching around to see if this was crazy and found out that people had made sweet IR + WiiMote digital whiteboards. If the WiiMote were to be made stationary and the source of IR moving, we at least in principle have the very beginnings of the capability to “wave a thing around and have it do stuff.” Wikipedia of course has a great summary of the capabilities of the Wiimote. This meant that the WiiMote actually had the smarts to detect the IR light and ship that information over to the Wii to act on. Some people have even replaced their sensor bars with candles, which strikes me as somewhat of a fire hazard. Turns out, I didn’t need to! The “sensor bar” of a Wii is nothing more than a couple spaced out IR Leds which the WiiMote detects. Now to figure out a way to somewhat reproduce that.Īn early thought I had was that I already had something in the house which I could wave around and have its actions reflected on screen: a WiiMote! I figured that was likely sending out some IR signals to the sensor bar which was feeding into the Wii.īut I was wondering to myself how I would reproduce the sensor bar.
What would be the method to “see” the wands?Īt the time that I was asked to do this, the Harry Potter world was already popular and had working magic wands.What would be the primary technology for the wands?.The sub-project of the wand itself had two mini-tasks within it: A mechanism to perform actions based on recognized “spells”.A mechanism to recognize “spell” gestures.This project was really broken into four sub-projects Feel free to jump straight to the end for directions, source code, and anything else I can think of to hopefully help you make your own. This is the journey as I recall it make magic wands that actually work on the cheap. More importantly, my daughter and her friends seemed to enjoy it. It turns out I did manage to make something that I thought was pretty neat. I no longer remember exactly how I responded, but it was probably something along the lines of: “Uhhh… maybe?”
#Darwiinremote mac sierra software
In particular, I’m pretty sure that the Wiimote software isn’t able to work on the most recent versions of MacOS.Ī little less than two four years ago my wife approached me about possibly building “working” Harry Potter-style magic wands for my daughter’s eleventh birthday party.
#Darwiinremote mac sierra code
I provide a link to the code I had on disk but it may not completely work as-is. I realized I had never really posted it anywhere so I have updated in case there is interest in others of building something similar. Note: The bulk of this was written about two years ago.
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