#Wiimotewhiteboard software#
#Wiimotewhiteboard Bluetooth#

Select the “Don’t use a passkey” radio button and DON’T press “Next”.Select the “Nintendo RVL-CNT-01” device and click “Next”.Press the red button of the Wiimote (in the battery compartement) to unpair it from anything else and get into “detecable” mode.Click the “My device is set up and ready to be connected” checkbox.

#Wiimotewhiteboard Bluetooth#

In the system tray on your Windows, right-click the bluetooth icon, and choose “Add a Bluetooth Device”.Net framework, and unpack the smoothboard zipfile in a convenient location. Download Boon Jin’s Smoothboard for Windows.This is slightly more work, but does not include steps which are strange to regular Windows users:

You can pair up to 2 Wiimotes to increase reliability. I did these steps on an intel Mac mini and it worked beautifully.

After pairing is complete, press the “calibrate” button and follow the instructions.

If the Wiimote was already on, you may need to press the red button in the battery compartment. On the Wiimote, press buttons 1 and 2 simultaniously to put it in “detectable” mode.Download WiimoteWhiteboard for the Mac by Uwe Schmidt.I was expecting a lot of experimental stuff, but instead, this is all you have to do: The only right way to do it is follow Johnny’s schematic. An LED is a diode, and it needs to be limited in current. I noticed a lot of people building infra-red pens by directly connecting an LED to a battery, which will possibly ruin your LED very quickly because there’s too much current running through it. This is a bit clunky, so next on my list is to build a simple infra-red pen this weekend.

#Wiimotewhiteboard software#

In my first tests to see if the software works, I used a TV remote. Please note that you need some kind of Infra-Red emitting device. I tried some software on the Mac and the PC, and I actually got both to work without too much trouble. Using a Wiimote, he can track an infrared lightsource (like an LED) and use that to control the mousecursor. For people wanting to have an interactive whiteboard but don’t have the money, Johnny Chung Lee has found the solution.