Wii controler into ChucK? (linux)

Stochastic · Joined: Feb 25, 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Vancouver

Is it possible to do such a thing? There are plenty of libraries for reading the bluetooth communications, in various languages, C, C++, Python, Perl, etc... Has anyone built a chuck reader or frontend to these libraries?

ravelite · Joined: Jun 03, 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Barcelona

Definitely possible.

I think there is some internal WiiMote code in the chuck sourcetree that's not quite done yet.

But another (hack, but sufficient) solution is translating it with platform specific tools into OSC and interpreting that from ChucK.

My (incomplete) results below:
http://www.iua.upf.es/~gcoleman/chuck/svn/gkc_wii.pie
http://www.iua.upf.es/~gcoleman/chuck/svn/wiidata.ck

Graham

Inventor · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

Call me a simpleton, but I'm not a fan of using OSC in my programs. It's poorly documented, limited in performance (can't send multiple messages or something like that), and takes reams of code to implement. Now having said that, that's just me. Lots of people seem to be getting a lot out of OSC so I'm not gonna knock it, just suffice to say that I see OSC as a powerful, enabling feature that I simply choose not to utilize. For my HID project I'll use the USB Joystick support and then later if/when Wiimote communication becomes natively supported then I'll consider that option as well. Just my two cents, I love to program and I love to push the limits of something, but all I read about OSC is problems. Please feel free to jump on in and correct me if you feel otherwise, but that's my story at the moment. (Can you tell I'm in a grumpy mood today... grump! grump!).

Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject:

http://opensoundcontrol.org/spec-1_0

As for the semantics .. those are just not part of the OSC specs it seems.

Stochastic · Joined: Feb 25, 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Vancouver

Ok, that's good to see that the native wii code is coming along. I just realized the number of other times this subject has be asked in this forum, and feel silly/stupid for not looking first. Embarassed

Thanks.

Inventor · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject:

nescivi · Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Montreal

http://www.nescivi.nl/wiiosc/

for a linux based simple OSC interface to the Wii.
There are some SuperCollider *ducking behind chair* classes available in the package for using it. I'd be willing to host Chuck code with it as well, if someone sends me a good example.

hirsute · Joined: May 15, 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Ireland

http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-19150.html for some simple enough chuck code designed to work with OSC packets. nothing super crazy awesome, but definitely proof of concept.

nescivi · Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Montreal

I'm not a chuck user (nor planning to be anytime soon, happy with SC), so I won't delve into it...
but what I meant what that if someone has a working example to interact with my little program wiiosc for linux, then I'd be happy to include that in the distribution, so that other people can benefit from it too. all GPL of course.

Kassen · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject:

nescivi · Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Montreal

it just seems that way!

reading the I Ching I just learned that "Ge" means "Abolishing the Old", and not the inverse "Ding" - "Establishing the New".
I'll wait till the latter has happened Wink

We (the SC people) now just got a new toy: SCGraph
http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=76, which is competition for Fluxus and for Chuck's fancy eyecandy. Now we can use Dust on 3D images!