The Therewiin
Finally, I decided to buy a Wiimote, and spent a couple of ho, a urs building some proof of concept program for Wiimote-based sound production. The result was the Therewiin, an extremely simple C program (for Linux / *nix, or anything that supports JACK and BlueZ) that tries to resemble the “Theremin” instrument, much in the way that some people already do. The difference is: the code is available for you to use and improve (and it needs a lot of improvements). It’s just an FM oscillator, which uses the angle of the remote(provided by the force sensors) to control pitch. Of course then you have some conversions (pitch to Hertz, and so on), to ensure that it is minimally playable. So far, I suck at it, but i believe that it is fairly playable, with some training. Give it a try.
- The Therewiin - http://www.zarquon.biz/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Therewiin