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Wii Drum High Turns Your Controllers Into a Shaky PC Drum Set [Wii]
Gizmodo — Wii Music set up a solid control scheme for drumming with the console's various attachments, which hacker He Zhao has basically replicated. Except this time it's free, customizable and on your PC. Just like in its Wii progenitor, this program follows a simple pattern: feet control bass drums, while the swinging hands take care of each other components, depending on which button is depressed during movement. For such a simple hack it's kind of impressive how accurately the sounds are matched to movements, and the possibility of endless drum sample customization means that with some refining, ...

Wii Drum High: Virtual Drumming Hack
Wired: Gadget Lab — This is possibly the purpose for which the Wiimote, and also the Wii Fit balance board, were made. Drumming: There's also a more detailed video below of just how this hack, by Zhao He, works  but the basics are simple: The Wiimote, Nunchuk and Balance Board are all connected to your PC via Bluetooth. You then download the free, open-source software and install (XP useres will need to install the .NET framework first). The Wii accessories do what they are supposed to do - sense motion – and the software translates it into drum sounds. This is quite excellent, although I will kill ...

Wii Drum High, Wiimote drumming
Hack a Day — [HE Zao] sent us this sweet Wiimote Drum kit. You’ll nee a Wiimote, a Nunchuck, and a Balance Board to use with the the Wii Drum High software. You get a Hi-hat, snare, bass drum, crash cymbal, ride cymbal, mid tom, and low tom. You can even connect multiple sets, up ...

Wii Drum High
MAKE Magazine: hacks — HE Zhao wrote in to tell us about an open source Wii peripheral drum-kit project he's been working on: I have recently developed Wii Drum High, a software integrates Wiimote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board to stimulate a complete drum set. Different gestures and joystick buttons result in correspondent drum sounds. I recorded some videos of real drummer playing with it, and it worked out pretty good. The software, released under the GPL, is written in C# using Brian Peek's WiimoteLib API. Using the Visual C# Express development environment and WiimoteLib, you can ...

Wii Drum High
MAKE Magazine — HE Zhao wrote in to tell us about an open source Wii peripheral drum-kit project he's been working on: I have recently developed Wii Drum High, a software integrates Wiimote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board to stimulate a complete drum set. Different gestures and joystick buttons result in correspondent drum sounds. I recorded some videos of real drummer playing with it, and it worked out pretty good. The software, released under the GPL, is written in C# using Brian Peek's WiimoteLib API. Using the Visual C# Express development environment and WiimoteLib, you can ...

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