Dissertation
I have decided that a suitably long period of time has now elapsed since i completed my degree in Audio Technology at The University of Salford for me to publish my dissertation. I’ve also noticed that i get quite a lot of search hits on my site for people looking for dissertations. Rip it off if you want, really, go on, if you can’t be arsed to do your own work and you can sleep at night stealing someone elses work which has had literally hundreds of hours put into it then go right ahead. If you can live with that.
The focus of the project was to find a new means of creating MIDI data, i chose to use the Nintendo WiiMote and convert user movements into MIDI data – how is that different from WiiDrums/Guitar Hero etc. well i’ll tell you how – this system is spacially aware. That means that the physical position of the controller affects what data is generated, not just relative movments from the accelerometer and button presses. When i wrote the dissertation, no one else had done this. I suspect that is no longer true as both the commercial and hacker markets have exploded in development for the WiiMote. Anyway, heres the link for you to enjoy, sorry no CD-ROM but i’m not just going to give away the source code… you’ll have to ask nicely 