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1. 

   Jamie McDonald

   hiya folks

   first of all a big well done on max five it is fantastic. The interface design and work flow has been greatly improved and i love the way pretty much everything is customizable.

   Anyway today in the UK i brought my Mrs. Wii Fit for our nintendo WII but i am not allowed to open it until she is home from work and shes played it. I am a big computer gamer so i am always playing around with different interfaces with max. I regally use the wiimote with max and wondered if anyone has had any luck using the wii balance board with max.

   supposedly it can connect to windows the same way as a wiimote does so theoretically it should work through the [tk.wii]object that i use. I just wondered if anyone else has tried to use it as it would be great to control pretty much anything within max.

   Any info or websites or even project links which are a similar idea would be greatly appreciated. It would be great to see what other projects fellow Maxers are doing using Wiimotes and Interfaces.

   -Macca

   2 years ago
2. 

   Eric Samothrakis

   Hi Macca,

   I m just thinking of using the wii fit for a small project. Did you manage to get it work with max/msp?

   Cheers

   2 years ago
3. 

   magmallow

   Hey anyone worked out how to use the balance board as a controller yet? if the wiimote can work with max/msp, the wii balance board would as well, wouldn't it?......maybe if someone could talk me through the logic behind getting the wiimote to work, we could start thinking about turning the balance board into a controller as well.

   Anyone?...

   Mags

   1 year ago
4. 

   ico

   Speaking of perfect timing, a research student of mine has just built a
   hacked version of aka.wiimote that does exactly that. Still needing some
   clean-up & calibration, but hopefully should be done by the end of November.

   Wii Fit board in a nutshell behaves as a classic controller with 4 sensors
   in each of its feet. It appears however that its calibration messages are
   unlike other Wii devices, thus preventing it from working with the existing
   aka object.

   We should be posting something here as soon as the external is stable enough
   for widespread consumption.

   Hope this helps.

   Best wishes,

   Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
   Composition, Music Technology
   Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
   Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
   CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
   Virginia Tech
   Dept. of Music - 0240
   Blacksburg, VA 24061
   (540) 231-6139
   ico@vt.edu
   http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

   > -----Original Message-----
   > From: maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com [mailto:maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com]
   > On Behalf Of Maggie T
   > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:08 PM
   > Subject: [maxmsp] Re: Wii Fit Balance Board with Max
   >
   >
   > Hey anyone worked out how to use the balance board as a controller yet? if
   > the wiimote can work with max/msp, the wii balance board would as well,
   > wouldn't it?......maybe if someone could talk me through the logic behind
   > getting the wiimote to work, we could start thinking about turning the
   > balance board into a controller as well.
   >
   > Anyone?...
   >
   > Mags

   1 year ago
5. 

   Eric Samothrakis

   You could try Osculator:
   http://www.osculator.net/wiki/Main/HomePage
   It supports Wii-Fit although "Some Wii-Fit balance boards are unfortunately not working properly (YMMV, a model bought in september was working perfectly)."

   1 year ago
6. 

   oli larkin

   a colleague of mine has connected the wii balance board to Max on windows using OSC via Glove Pie: http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie

   i also tried it on Mac using OSCulator, but seemed that not all the data was sent correctly

   oli

   1 year ago
7. 

   jan74

   "a colleague of mine has connected the wii balance board to Max on windows using OSC via Glove Pie: http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie"

   as far as i know you need the glovePIE version 0.30 to connect a Balance Board. Unfortunatly Carl Kenner took that version offline, because - according to him - there are mayor bugs if the Wiimote IR camera is used. i use the 0.30 with balance board under Windows XP and until it works fine.

   Though (in this constellation) there is a lot of calibration work to to in order to get usable and reliable data form the board.

   1 year ago

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