Introduction

This is a short tutorial that explain howto implement an interactive whiteboard.

In order to build the whiteboard you need of: * a projector or a screen connected to your computer * a wiimote * an infrared pen * a built in or external bluetooth device connected to your computer

If you are interested about the wiimote can work as whiteboard you can see Chung Lee video.

He is the first Human-Computer Interaction researcher that begin to work with the wiimote IR camera.

Let's see the video below.

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If you do not know how setup the wiimote whiteboard, see the video tutorial made from the teacher Samuel Sennott:

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See this video that compare the wiimote whiteboard vs. commercial electronic whiteboards

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You will be able to build a cheap, fun, homebrew professional electronic whiteboard

usable with a lot of free software and obviously the Ardesia tool.

If you speak italian you can read more info about the wiimote whiteboard for teaching purposes on the wiild project.

How I can try the wiimote whiteboard?

Simply download wildos and try it.

How to install a wiimote whiteboard driver

There are a lot of free implementation of the wiimote whiteboard

A good whiteboard driver is the Pere Negre' one. It is stable, it has not trills and it is easy to use

If you are using ubuntu or debian you can download the deb from

http://github.com/pnegre/python-whiteboard/downloads

and install the package double clicking on the deb

If you have a different distro or you want use the last changes you can checkout the program source code

from the git repository.

First of all install the git client:

| $ sudo apt-get install git| |:--------------------------|

Now you can clone the git source code repository with the following command:

| $ git clone http://github.com/pnegre/python-whiteboard.git | |:------------------------------------------------------------|

Install the required packages

| $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools python-qt4-dev python-cwiid python-bluez python-xlib| |:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Then enter in the folder python-whiteboard

| $ cd python-whiteboard | |:-----------------------|

Build it

| $ make | |:-------|

Install it

| $ sudo make install | |:--------------------|

and finally run the program

| $ python-whiteboard | |:--------------------|

Then calibrate the screen and use the wiimote whiteboard

Install a sketchpad software

Install the Ardesia program from the deb binary following the instruction on this wiki page

Or build it from source code following the instruction here.

Point your pen on the menu and select Application/Tools Ardesia

Now you have an easy to use interactive whiteboard and you might be able

to annotate the projected screen drawing with the infrared pen.

How to install a whiteboard software

You can download a program usable within the whiteboard able to annotate pdf files

https://launchpad.net/whyteboard

Enjoy with the free wiimote whiteboard!