Step 3: Software Installation
Method 3A: For users with “administrative privelages”
Note: For computer users without "administrative privelages", the included programs can be run from your desktop, or even from a USB thumb drive!
See "Method B" below.
- First, download the Smoothboard installation file and save it on your desktop: Smoothboard.exe (click on the hyperlink, and select "Save File", then choose your desktop as the location).
- Open the installer file (double-click on the desktop icon) and follow the installation procedures to install Smoothboard to the default location: C:\Boon Jin\Smoothboard.
Next, download and save to the desktop: WWP_Extensions. This package includes (WiimoteConnect, additional cursors and pre-defined settings). Run the program (double-click it) and browse to the “Boon Jin” folder. Then select “Install”.
You now have these two programs, which offer the preferred method for implementing the Wii Whiteboard Project (free for educational use). It’s recommended to find the icons in the "Boon Jin" installation folder, and create desktop shortcuts. Further details are available from their respective sites.
WiimoteConnect, Version: 0.60
Author: Lukas Reinhart (a.k.a. thex)
Weblink: www.wiimoteproject.com
Wiimote Smoothboard, Version 1.0
Author: Goh Boon Jin
Website: www.smoothboard.net
Proceed to: Quicker Connections
Method 3B: For users without “administrative privelages”
The programs can be installed onto a USB thumb drive. With this method, it’s easiest to install the extensions first, in order to create the file structure.
- Download and save to the desktop: WWP_Extensions. This package includes (WiimoteConnect, additional cursors and pre-defined settings). Run the program (double-click it) and browse to the root letter of your thumb drive folder. Here, it’s shown as a “Kingston” drive, with drive letter “G”. Then select “Install”.
- WWP_Extensions creates icons and a folder on the thumb-drive, in preparation for the Smoothboard installation.
Next, download the Smoothboard installation file and save it on your desktop: Smoothboard.exe (click on the hyperlink, and select "Save File", then choose your desktop as the location). - Open the installer file (double-click on the desktop icon) and follow the installation procedures to install Smoothboard to the USB thumbdrive. Select the Smoothboard folder on the thumb-drive, and then “install”.
You now have these two programs, which offer the preferred method for implementing the Wii Whiteboard Project (free for educational use). Look for the icons on your USB thumb drive. Further details are available from their respective sites.
WiimoteConnect, Version: 0.60
Author: Lukas Reinhart (a.k.a. thex)
Weblink: www.wiimoteproject.com
Wiimote Smoothboard, Version 1.0
Author: Goh Boon Jin
Website: www.smoothboard.net
Quicker Connections
For those using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack, future connections to the Wii Remote can now be made quickly using the "WiimoteConnect" software.
- Open the WiimoteConnect application
- Click the “connect” button
- Press the "1" and "2" buttons on the Wiimote
- After the connection is made, the “WiimoteConnect” application can be closed
Proceed to Step 4: Calibration of the Smoothboard
