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The IR camera on the Wii remote can be easily accessed using the Bluetooth connection. However, this can be a pain for embedded applications where you don’t want to rely on a “permanent” Bluetooth connection or resort to using a computer with Bluetooth.
The alternative is to connect directly to the camera using I2C. This is [...]
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Tags: physical computing, wii remote
Nodebox
Today, I started experimenting with Nodebox–an easy way to generate visuals using Python scripts (for free!). It is pretty friendly, but without optimizing your code, visuals can take some time to generate on my Macbook.
Here is a flower I generated using the MathSculpture.py and OrganicBall.py examples included with the app.
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Tags: graphics, visual computing
Serial I/O in Cocoa
For those of you who are interested in building Cocoa apps that use Serial I/O (for example, to log data from an Arduino) here is the relevant reference from Apple:
SerialPortSample
and here is an implementation under BSD license that could easily be adapted to your own projects from Harmless Cocoa:
AMSerialPort
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Tags: apple, physical computing
