Rwiimote gem available

Ruby. 19:22, 2010.05.09.

I just pushed to rubygems my first gem!! It's called rwiimote, it's a wrapper around libcwiimote3, which provides some bindings to control wiimotes over bluetooth. To install:

gem install rwiimote

Included within the gem there's a README that provides some documentation, along with some usage examples. Let's analyze them here:

w=Wiimote.new



# w.connect requires mac address of device to connect to. find it by running "hcitool scan" just after you hit 1&2 on your wiimote



puts "press both 1 and 2 keys to connect"

exit unless w.connect "00:11:22:33:44:55"

puts "connected!"



# you can turn those fancy blue leds on or off by calling on/off methods on them 

w.led[1].on

w.led[2].off



puts "click home to disconnect"

while w.open?

  # w.update has to be called every time you want to send/receive new data to/from the device. usually it's at the beginning of a loop like this 

  w.disconnect unless w.update

  

  # check if button "a" was pressed

  puts "a!" if w.a?



  # disconnect if button "home" was pressed

  w.disconnect if w.home?

end

The second one shows how to access the force data:

w=Wiimote.new

exit unless w.connect "00:11:22:33:44:55"



# turn on accelerometer

w.acc= true



puts "shake to disconnect!!"

while w.open?

  w.disconnect unless w.update



  #	print information about each axis of the accelerometer

  puts "force x: " + w.force_x.to_s

  puts "force y: " + w.force_y.to_s

  puts "force z: " + w.force_z.to_s



  # disconnect if you were shaking too hard :)

  w.disconnect if w.force > 2

end

There are some other methods available, check them in the README file. Drop me a line if something does not work or if you just have some questions about it.

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