Well the website is nearly back to normal following the debacle caused by moving hosts and things are nearly back to normal… nearly. There is a ton of comments and mail backlog to get through so please bear with me we are nearly there.
The The IRO-USB-R4 Glove was featured on BBC East Midlands, Today. Interviewed were ISRG team Member Steven Battersby and Nottingham University’s Andy Richardson:
Special thanks to Fred Higton for all his help and partaking in the projects development.
Video courtesy of BBC East Midlands Today.
The Infrared Only Universal Serial Bus Rechargeable Glove has finally reached version 4. This is to be its final iteration and as such the glove is now feature complete, offering both fast charge times and solid performance.
The following details some of the primary features that make the IRO-USB-R4 aka The Scorpion stand out for Wiimote IR Tracking development. Continue reading ‘The IRO-USB-R4 aka The Scorpion’
The primary Glove application and WiiciTrackLib, both developed for my Phd was featured in the nottingham post the other day, under the banner of: Experts create Nintendo Wii glove to help stroke patients.
A direct link to the article can be found here.
The article details a nice photo of Andy demonstrating one of the rechargeable glove prototypes with the CLAHRC project space race game.
The article also provides a little information about the Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and Disability conferance at which the system was featured.
I have updated WiiciServerLib to version 1.1. The new release includes support for three new Wiici applications:
- wiici_Ca – Custom User Applications (for use with WiiciClientLib… coming soon)
- wiici_Mm – The Wiici Mini Mapper
- wiici_GP – The Wiici GOET Project Application
WiiciServerLib 1.1 is now available for download here. For more information check out the WiiciServerLib page here.
I have updated WiiciServerLib to version 1.1. The new release includes support for three new Wiici applications:
- wiici_Ca – Custom User Applications (for use with WiiciClientLib… coming soon)
- wiici_Mm – The Wiici Mini Mapper
- wiici_GP – The Wiici GOET Project Application
WiiciServerLib 1.1 is now available for download here. For more information check out the WiiciServerLib page here.
WiiciWebCamLib is a simple dynamic link library that has been developed to import a WebCam/Video stream into to XNA via the DirectShowLib available from directshownet.sourceforge.net. For a quick demo check out the following video:
WiiciWebCamLib basically converts a video stream from a Web Cam and converts it in to an XNA Texture2D object which can then be rendered via SpriteBatch or as a 3D texture.
During a little Wiisearch this afternoon I happened across a couple of nice Wii Controller concepts by Michael Tam. Entitled as Hiit and Kiix, the two Potential Design Solutions (PDS’s) suggest dual hand and foot motion sensing capability.
All in all I quite like the concepts and believe that they would be fairly easy to implement at a home-brew level. However I would personally drop Hitt (far too bulky and already facilitated) and just focus on Kiix but give it more of a pedometer feel.
For more information and source, check out Michael’s site here.
I seem to be doing a lot of 3DOF tracking work at present, what with iteration 1.3 of WiiciTrackLib and a related project at work. By way of result my poor old calibration cube is now looking very worse for ware.
Although collapsible it seems that it just can’t handle the constant trips to and from work. With this in mind I decided its time to build a new one. After all I’m beginning to find it difficult to get is square.
Yesterday evening I began to revisit an old project/concept as means to further validate, the peripheral technologies of the Nintendo Wii Controller, as base platform for AHID development.
A few years back before the age of Wii, my research involved the development of a couple joystick prototypes under the banner of an EPSRC funded project. A render of the final design iteration, can be seen above.