The primary aim of this post is to help spread that word that you can easily create an interactive whiteboard. You order an $8 LED light pen online, combine that with a $40 Nintendo Wii Remote, some free software, http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard, and bam you have an interactive whiteboard. Simple…powerful and..cool. Special thanks to Adam Bowker for his help. Special thanks to Johnny Chung Lee for originally sharing such a powerful idea. I hope the video and corresponding guide that includes links to all the stuff is a catalyst for helping teachers utilize this tool. Note that you need to have Bluetooth on your computer.
Download the PDF: building-and-using-a-wiimote-whiteboard-in-education guide
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I’m so sorry about cutting off your head in the video. I’m a better cameraman than that, really.
Adam, No prob. I just got an hd cam, so maybe we can reshoot that part. Always good to look at things as works in progress. ttyl -Sam
This is fantastically useful! I’ll be posting about this soon and referencing your post
Great tutorial but would have much better if the background music was eliminated. The “loud” music makes your voice very difficult to understand.
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Sam
Great video, I have written a detailed guide for setting up a Wiimote IWB. It includes a manual for Smoothboard the Windows Wiimote IWB app but the content on setup options, IR-Pens and tips/tricks is the same Max/Windows/Linux.
Join the discussion at http://www.wiimoteproject.com
Ben
I want share with you a software that allow
to make free hand annotation on the desktop
very useful for educational purposes and
used with a wiimote whiteboard
http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/
Ardesia enables you to make colored free-hand annotations on your computer screen, record it and share on the network.
This is especially useful when making presentations, to highlight things or point out things of interest.
The tool facilitates the online presentations and demos showing in real time your computer screen to anyone in the network.
Ardesia is XInput-Aware, so if you have a mouse, a graphic tablet, a touch screen, a wiimote whiteboard or a commercial whiteboard;
you can draw lines with different strength, select color, erase things and draw arrows.
You can free-hand draw geometrical shapes using the shape recognizer, insert text with the keyboard and highlight screen areas.
You can draw upon the desktop or select an image as background.
sir I am working on your project of multytoch whiteboard using wiimote. Sir please give me idea about programing .send me some sample programs . Thanks…
@Avinash Patil
Hi if dou you want contact me and then we can do a plan about the multitouch wiimote issues.
You found my contacts on
http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/
WiildOs 1.3.2 is out,
WiildOs is an educational live and installable GNU/Linux distro build
from the Ardesia stuff and thinking for teaching purposes. It includes
the software that enable you to use a wiimote whiteboard.
WiildOs includes lubuntu-desktop, python-whiteboard, ardesia, sankore,
spotlighter, curtain, florence-ramble, wmgui, wiican, easystroke,
whyteboard, vmg, shutter, gimp, tuxpaint, tuxmath, tuxtype, dia,
scribus, audacity, stellarium, xournal, gcompris, geogebra, wxmaxima,
openoffice.org, jokosher, musescore, solfege, stellarium, dasher,
eviacam and more!
More info on http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/wiki/WiildOs
Build a wiildOs4win wubi like installer that allow to install wiildOs
inside windows without partitioning the hard disk.
http://ardesia.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/wiildOs/wiildOs4win.exe
Changelog
- new kernel 2.6.35; this add the support to some new devices including
the toshiba bluettoth
- thunderbird in now the default mailer instead of sylpheed
- firefox is the default browser instead of chromium
- removed xscreensaver for performance issue
- remove all the gnome office suite; we use openoffice suite
- fix the wiican program; now you can you use the wiimote as controller
usinf the infrared camera or the accelerometers in a visual user
friendly way
what kind of wii-mote am I going to use? the normal wii-mote? wii-mote with motion? or the nunchuck? need a reply.
Hello, can you please tell me where the powerpoint is that you refer to in this video? Thanks, Maryna