PowerPoint Wiimote Presenter

Posted on 10:18pm 3/01/2008 by Bruno Silva in Games, Programming, Utilities

Wiimote

After some months willing to buy a Wiimote to try it in my PC, a couple of hours on front of a Wii gaming console convinced me to do finally buy it. After all, now I have some friends with whom I can play using my Wiimote! :-)

Some time ago I wrote a library to the Xbox 360 GamePad (based on XNA 2.0) and a demo which included a PowerPoint add-in to control presentations (targeting Office 2007). Since my GamePad was wired it was just a demo with no real-life usage.

Now I’ve done the same thing with my Wiimote. Based on the Managed Library for Nintendo’s Wiimote available at Codeplex.com, I made a simple (and uncompleted) library that raises events when each pressed/released button state changes. I’ve re-written the PowerPoint add-in to use the Wiimote. Now I finally have a presentation wireless controller (other than my mouse ;) ).

All the presentation control is achieved using the buttons, but if you quickly move the Wiimote you also move to the next slide. This physics-based control was just a test, is not really necessary. Clicking a button is much simpler than using a movement to move forward. It is just a geek trick.

Download the Wiimote Presenter add-in.

Download the add-in source code.


2 Responses to “PowerPoint Wiimote Presenter”

  1. Also take a look at http://jasonlpsmith.googlepages.com/wiimotepresenter
    This allows you to use your WiiMote as a mouse.
    Doesn’t work on Vista though

  2. Hello!

    Is this possible to integrate the Interactive white board software and wiimote presenter into single using two wiimotes.

    If possible help me how to solve this?

    Thanks & Regards,
    Karumanchi

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