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« on: July 12, 2009, 09:37:25 PM »

About Layout for Presenter & Whiteboard, if we put wireless sensor bar at the bottom/top of the screen and put "infrared camera" wiimote with d=2h distance, which I assume it should be around 45 degree to the screen, and probably see the infrared light in the sensor bar.

Will the new infrared source (from the pen) conflict with sensor bar ?
If we switch from Presenter & Whiteboard to just Presenter, can we just switch the mode and take the primary wiimote as presenter wiimote ?
What is the farthest distance between the pen and tracking wiimote, assuming using commercial pen ?

I didn't try this, because I don't have the pen yet.

Suggestion, in glovepie, I can open the script for configuring wiimote as mouse with or without the sensor bar, indeed, it should be back and forth of opening the script, but it is useful if we don't have the sensor bar, eventhough the navigation is terrible.
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 07:49:48 AM »

About Layout for Presenter & Whiteboard, if we put wireless sensor bar at the bottom/top of the screen and put "infrared camera" wiimote with d=2h distance, which I assume it should be around 45 degree to the screen, and probably see the infrared light in the sensor bar.

Will the new infrared source (from the pen) conflict with sensor bar ?
If we switch from Presenter & Whiteboard to just Presenter, can we just switch the mode and take the primary wiimote as presenter wiimote ?
What is the farthest distance between the pen and tracking wiimote, assuming using commercial pen ?

I didn't try this, because I don't have the pen yet.

Suggestion, in glovepie, I can open the script for configuring wiimote as mouse with or without the sensor bar, indeed, it should be back and forth of opening the script, but it is useful if we don't have the sensor bar, eventhough the navigation is terrible.

Hi Mason,

It is advisable to place the Sensor bar away from the viewing angle of the Wiimote.
If it is unavoidable, I have already made a feature in the Software to ignore the point if it is detected outside the calibrated area and always on. However, make sure that the sensor bar only emit a single IR source as the Wiimote  can detect only up to 4 IR sources. If so, the actual IR pen might not be able to be detected.

To further improve on the accuracy of the detection, I have included the Presenter Mode tab in the Settings for Whiteboard Mode. Here, you can press Ignore detected IR dot.

You can find more information here:
http://www.boonjin.com/smoothboard/index.php?title=Ignore_stationary_IR-Source

Using the accelerometer of the Wiimote for motion is not suitable like you have mentioned. It will be difficult to control the cursor.

Regards,
Boon Jin
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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2009, 03:46:24 AM »

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If it is unavoidable, I have already made a feature in the Software to ignore the point if it is detected outside the calibrated area and always on.

This will be great, because my sensor bar emits 3 lights at the left and 3 at the right, totaling 6.

I find that with single-light stationary ir is good in small range such as <2 meters, because multiple-light will provide bias, the cursor can move in another loop, meaning when we move the cursor to the leftmost of the screen, suddenly it will appear at the center, then after we move the second time to the leftmost, the cursor will stop.

But when the distance is getting longer, single-light make cursor stop randomly, but only few times, it could be my "handycam-nightshot-mode-ir" light that is not strong enough, but could be something else, so if any information can confirm what is the longest distance between the two vishay ir leds, will solve the issue.

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Using the accelerometer of the Wiimote for motion is not suitable like you have mentioned. It will be difficult to control the cursor.

Maybe I was overemphasizing the difficulty too much, the navigation is tolerable, here I attach my modified glovepie script, use it without sensor bar/stationary ir, if the cursor is running away while the wiimote stand still, use Wiimote Calibration.
Actually this is my first experiment using wiimote as mouse, because at that time, I didn't have sensor bar.

Going up and down is the same, but going to the left and right is different, the wiimote must be rotated clockwise for the right, counter-clockwise for the left, there is no need to swing to the right or left.
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