Jamie McDonald

first of all a big well done on max five it is fantastic. The interface design and work flow has been greatly improved and i love the way pretty much everything is customizable.

Anyway today in the UK i brought my Mrs. Wii Fit for our nintendo WII but i am not allowed to open it until she is home from work and shes played it. I am a big computer gamer so i am always playing around with different interfaces with max. I regally use the wiimote with max and wondered if anyone has had any luck using the wii balance board with max.

supposedly it can connect to windows the same way as a wiimote does so theoretically it should work through the [tk.wii]object that i use. I just wondered if anyone else has tried to use it as it would be great to control pretty much anything within max.

Any info or websites or even project links which are a similar idea would be greatly appreciated. It would be great to see what other projects fellow Maxers are doing using Wiimotes and Interfaces.

first of all a big well done on max five it is fantastic. The interface design and work flow has been greatly improved and i love the way pretty much everything is customizable. 

Anyway today in the UK i brought my Mrs. Wii Fit for our nintendo WII but i am not allowed to open it until she is home from work and shes played it. I am a big computer gamer so i am always playing around with different interfaces with max. I regally use the wiimote with max and wondered if anyone has had any luck using the wii balance board with max. 

wii-fit-balance-board-with-max

I m just thinking of using the wii fit for a small project. Did you manage to get it work with max/msp?

Hey anyone worked out how to use the balance board as a controller yet? if the wiimote can work with max/msp, the wii balance board would as well, wouldn't it?......maybe if someone could talk me through the logic behind getting the wiimote to work, we could start thinking about turning the balance board into a controller as well.

Speaking of perfect timing, a research student of mine has just built a

hacked version of aka.wiimote that does exactly that. Still needing some

clean-up & calibration, but hopefully should be done by the end of November.

Wii Fit board in a nutshell behaves as a classic controller with 4 sensors

in each of its feet. It appears however that its calibration messages are

unlike other Wii devices, thus preventing it from working with the existing

We should be posting something here as soon as the external is stable enough

Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio

> From: maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com [mailto:maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com]

> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:08 PM

> Subject: [maxmsp] Re: Wii Fit Balance Board with Max

> Hey anyone worked out how to use the balance board as a controller yet? if

> the wiimote can work with max/msp, the wii balance board would as well,

> wouldn't it?......maybe if someone could talk me through the logic behind

> getting the wiimote to work, we could start thinking about turning the

> balance board into a controller as well.

Speaking of perfect timing, a research student of mine has just built a
hacked version of aka.wiimote that does exactly that. Still needing some
clean-up & calibration, but hopefully should be done by the end of November.

Wii Fit board in a nutshell behaves as a classic controller with 4 sensors
in each of its feet. It appears however that its calibration messages are
unlike other Wii devices, thus preventing it from working with the existing
aka object.

We should be posting something here as soon as the external is stable enough
for widespread consumption.

Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
ico@vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com [mailto:maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com]
> On Behalf Of Maggie T
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:08 PM
> Subject: [maxmsp] Re: Wii Fit Balance Board with Max
>
>
> Hey anyone worked out how to use the balance board as a controller yet? if
> the wiimote can work with max/msp, the wii balance board would as well,
> wouldn't it?......maybe if someone could talk me through the logic behind
> getting the wiimote to work, we could start thinking about turning the
> balance board into a controller as well.
>
> Anyone?...
>
> Mags


http://www.osculator.net/wiki/Main/HomePage

It supports Wii-Fit although "Some Wii-Fit balance boards are unfortunately not working properly (YMMV, a model bought in september was working perfectly)."

You could try Osculator:
http://www.osculator.net/wiki/Main/HomePage
It supports Wii-Fit although "Some Wii-Fit balance boards are unfortunately not working properly (YMMV, a model bought in september was working perfectly)."


a colleague of mine has connected the wii balance board to Max on windows using OSC via Glove Pie: 

http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie

i also tried it on Mac using OSCulator, but seemed that not all the data was sent correctly

a colleague of mine has connected the wii balance board to Max on windows using OSC via Glove Pie: http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie

"a colleague of mine has connected the wii balance board to Max on windows using OSC via Glove Pie: 

as far as i know you need the glovePIE version 0.30 to connect a Balance Board. Unfortunatly Carl Kenner took that version offline, because - according to him - there are mayor bugs if the Wiimote IR camera is used. i use the 0.30 with balance board under Windows XP and until it works fine.

Though (in this constellation) there is a lot of calibration work to to in order to get usable and reliable data form the board.

"a colleague of mine has connected the wii balance board to Max on windows using OSC via Glove Pie: http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie"

Though (in this constellation) there is a lot of calibration work to to in order to get usable and reliable data form the board.
