Comments on: Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote

By: sftzewurn

sftzewurn — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:26:52 +0000

Hi,

If you are using Windows application, you can probably try out Smoothboard as your interactive whiteboard.

Basically, Smoothboard resembles Johnny Lee's idea but it has been improved and modified to become a more user-friendly teaching tool.

If you are interested, here's the link for its latest autoconnect feature: http://www.smoothboard.net

By: Dual Sim Phone

Dual Sim Phone — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:22:28 +0000

great article

By: R4i

R4i — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:49:16 +0000

That's really neat.

I am amazed by the ingenuity of folks who can up with these applications; I certainly don't have that within me.

Considering that Interactive Whiteboards can cost $000's, this seems cheap .... but does it have limitations?

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:58:44 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to make this whiteboard to use in the classroom at school and I have the wii remote and I bought a usb bluetooth thing, and I downloaded the software from Jonny Lees website and I can’t get it to work. When I click to run the software it says ‘Exerption: Wii remote not found in HID device list. Can you please help!!! This is really frustrating!!!!
Thanks, Olivia

By: Bill Gilmore

Bill Gilmore — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:46:30 +0000

Thanks for the help Doug.

For those people for whom even basic soldering is too much, ahem, there is also an ir led penlight you can buy. A Streamlight Stylus 65089.

Beside the cost (24 GBP inc P&P from Polimil.co.uk or somewhat cheaper from amazon.com) the only drawback is that the on off switch is at the top of the pen rather than the writing part.

My only problem now is that my boss wants me to make Johnny’s 3d headset.

By: BlogDale » Interactive whiteboard with a Wiimote

BlogDale » Interactive whiteboard with a Wiimote — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:04:50 +0000

[...] into using Wiimotes and an IR pen to create an interactive whiteboard (for less than £50), and Doug Belshaw actually doing it, I’ve mashed up a complete solution that is cheap and [...]

By: Richard Platts

Richard Platts — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:53:26 +0000

@Joe check out http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard

By: Joe Horyza

Joe Horyza — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:31:57 +0000

I want to know how to set up the interactive whiteboard using a Mac laptop instead of a PC. Has anyone been successful? How did you get the software to run on the Mac? Johnny Lee told me some people have ported to a Mac. I don’t know how to do that. Any and all help would be great.
Joe

By: Richard Platts

Richard Platts — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:38:06 +0000

This is addicting – there is a ton of stuff going on right now in multi touch – I am so tempted to make this — http://tinyurl.com/6ffl2d

There is not a ton to do with multi touch, but it is coming!

By: Doug Belshaw

Doug Belshaw — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:09:28 +0000

@Danny: Glad you’ve got it working!

@Richard: I too am tempted to make another one for multi-touch. Are there many applications that you can use with it, though? Can’t seem to find more than a couple…

If you’re in the US and near a Radioshack store you might want to follow this video guide at Teacher Online Training. It has part numbers and a step-by-step guide!