Comments on: Wiimote whiteboard roundup

By: pilo

pilo — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:42:04 +0000

Ardesia 0.3 is out!
You can use the wiimote whiteboard with Ardesia
to annotate on the desktop
This is avaivable for Linux and Windows
http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/

You can see some screenshoot on
http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/wiki/Screenshot

By: ale

ale — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:19:43 +0000

I want share a very beatiful software to be used
with a wiimote whiteboard

http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/

Ardesia enables you to make colored free-hand annotations on your computer screen, record it and share on the network.

This is especially useful when making presentations, to highlight things or point out things of interest.

The tool facilitates the online presentations and demos showing in real time your computer screen to anyone in the network.

Ardesia is XInput-Aware, so if you have a mouse, a graphic tablet, a touch screen, a wiimote whiteboard or a commercial whiteboard; you can draw lines with different strength, select color, erase things and draw arrows.

You can free-hand draw geometrical shapes using the shape recognizer, insert text with the keyboard and highlight screen areas. You can draw upon the desktop or select an image as background.

By: Dave Armstrong

Dave Armstrong — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:09:30 +0000

Hi Folks,
I am not trying to hijack this thread for commercial purposes but there are simple solutions to all the earlier wiimote whiteboard drawbacks. I am part of 3P Interact Ltd a small NZ company formed by myself and two other school principals to advance this tech. As an example, our main product – the classroom kit – means the user simply clicks on a desktop icon, pushes a remote synch switch (about to go wireless) and that is it. By all means check out our dedicated blog if you are interested http://3pinteract.blogspot.com/
We are always happy to help schools (whether or not we have sold them something!), so feel free to ask questions.

By: Richard van Dijk

Richard van Dijk — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:17:55 +0000

Hi Stephanie

Yes things have improved a lot over the months since I wrote this original post and many of the issues are now easy fixes.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:31:33 +0000

Hi Richard,

I’m a Toshiba user as well..but I do not find any problem with the Bluetooth sync since I’m currently using Smoothboard. Maybe you can try this software in seeing whether it can help to resolve your problem.

By: Stephanie F

Stephanie F — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:43:58 +0000

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your reviews!

By: r3m

r3m — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:58:08 +0000

Hi Richard,
Thanks for the answer. It’s still not quite obvious the way to achieve it. I need more details.

By: Richard van Dijk

Richard van Dijk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:16:06 +0000

Hi r3m

To do this you have to pull the wiimote apart and do a little bit of soldering. I’ll dig out some photos to show you what to do. But essentially you get a 3 v adapter and a plug for this then solder on to the terminals. that makes it mains powered. then you need a tri wing scremdriver to open it up fully and you can then solder two wires on to the side of the sync button (the otherside of the red button) and then have a switch on the end.

By: r3m

r3m — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:03:57 +0000

Hi there Richard,
I’m headmaster in a high school in Greece. I’ve been using the wiimote whiteboard in my school for over one year. My question is how can I have the wiimote mains powered and add a switch to initiate bluetooth syncing
r3m

By: Richard van Dijk

Richard van Dijk — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:54:22 +0000

Once I find a windows machine I’ll do another review. We use Uwe Schmidt’s app as we and a lot of the schools we deal with have macs. But I have found the Bluetooth sync a pain on Toshiba’s so if this latest version fixes that it will be great.