Tag: wiimote
Light Saber: OSCON Preview
by john on Jul.19, 2009, under Marshie Attacks, wiimote
wiiMote tracking demo: Light Saber from InsightVR on Vimeo.
I’m going to demo this (and several other things) in my OSCON presentation, this Wednesday, July 22, ’09, at 1:45pm. I’ve already go it doing more than this. I can now stab boxes with the tip of the lightsaber to destroy them. I’m cleaning up the code and will post it in time for the presentation.
Rejection!
by john on Dec.15, 2008, under Head Tracking, PyCon, Python, wiimote
Together with my brother I submitted a proposal to PyCon to run a tutorial on wiiMote headtracking under Python. Given that they are running two days of tutorials this year I thought we had a pretty good shot. I guess we were wrong. After seeing on a mailing list that acceptance letters had been sent out over a week prior I wrote and asked for a formal rejection if such a thing was coming. A day later I got it.
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