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« on: January 13, 2009, 11:22:50 PM »

I just stumbled upon this Wii whiteboard stuff today and I look forward to trying out.

I was thinking about how you might be able to get the multiple buttons/functions of a mouse on the IR pen. Could a second Wiimote with the cable from the nunchuck be used to power the IR pen and then add buttons to IR pen that takes the place of buttons on the nunchuck and use a bluetooth connection of the second Wiimote for mouse left/right/middle clicks, scrolling, etc...? Then the pen could be used in cursor mode and still have clicks. You could put the second Wiimote in a pocket or strap it to your forearm or hold in the other hand and use it's buttons for other functions.

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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 04:00:31 AM »

In theory it seems like that could work. I had a similar idea with making a bluetooth pen, but your idea seems more plausible.

Looking in GlovePie, it says that it can emulate the mouse. So if you ran glovepie in the background assigning buttons on the pen to mouse presses, then it should work. If you used Smoothboard in the background and set it to track the location of the cursor only, then you kept the light on continually... it might just work.

The hardest thing would be to build a peripheral pen to hook into the wiimotes expansion slot.
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