gizmodo.com - 10/15/2008
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Hack a Day has a great video sent to them by a musician named Rob Morris, who uses the accelerometer data from his Wiimote to manipulate the sounds coming from his guitar. At the beginning of the vid, he shows how it can be used to change the pitch (using the Guitar Hero Star Power gesture), ...
robodance.com - 10/10/2008
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robodance.com —
This page explains what I did and used
to make the WiiMote Controlled Demonstration Video . This
system allows you to control a WowWee robot remotely using a Nintendo Wii remote control over the Web, using Robodance, the free software program for ...
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Rovio WiiMote
hackaday.com - 10/15/2008
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hackaday.com —
[Rob Morris] sent us this video of his
Wiimote based guitar effects. Similar to our post yesterday
about using the Wiimote to control a synth, he is using changes in orientation to effect the sound. He starts off with simple pitch modulation, but ...
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Wiimote guitar effects control
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Hacker Gives His Guitar Nintendo Wiimote Powers
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Very cool: Tech-savvy musician Rob Morris hooked up his Nintendo
Wiimote to his guitar and used the controller's accelerometer data to
manipulate the instrument's sounds. Check out the video above: He tilts
his guitar upward (Star Power, anyone?) to change the pitch, and then
he moves on to crazier sounds by pressing the Wiimote buttons.
[Hack a Day via Gizmodo]
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