Wiispray turns Wii Remote into virtual graffiti spray can
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted June 6th 2008 10:36AM
posted June 6th 2008 10:36AM
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posted June 6th 2008 10:36AM
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I can't decide if this is really cool or not...strange
This is so cool!
I'm such a liar!
Yes, you are. Therefore, we should disregard everything you just said.
All of it!
The following statement is a lie:
The previous statement was the truth.
Not curious at all. The if the buttons are form a recent Playstation controller, they are analog and allow for various levels of pressure/"paint" flow. I didn't think the Wii Remote's A and B buttons were analog.
Shouldn't the trigger button be the sprayer head?
no the sprayer head should be the trigger button
Not if you want it to look like a rattle can.
Wait, I understand what you meant now. Maybe the top button nozzle controls flow, and the button on the sides control color mix dynamically?
@ Mike C
That's the same thing said in a slightly different way, you goober! :D
"Pink is light red."
"No, light red is pink, silly!"
No what you said was that the top thing should be the trigger and should function like the spray head should.
What I said was the spray head should function like the trigger button.
English has a very specific ambiguity to it.
JET SET RAAAAADIIOOOO!!!
Jet Set Wiidio.
jet set radio is a gay game but marc eckos getiing up is genius,,, this wiispray is also genius and better be life like,, swear to god if this is a ripoff then ima hunt down the creater and kill him!!!!!!!!!!
This reminds me of when I Spray Painted my Computer and called it a Mac.
Was this before or after you started cooking with your notebook?
FYI, it's Marc not Mark. you referenced your own misspelling in a previous article, not very good fact-checking, Engadget. {tsk tsk}
Yay - now I don't have to pay the 'Paint-n-Spray' guys on GTA IV - i can do it myself in some back alley and loose my wanted level for free...
Sticks, dongles, pads, guitars, microphones, drums, wheels, pedals, spray paint cans...
I like the use of alternate input devices. It allows for more interesting games. But I'm running out of room for (and $ to buy) peripherals :) !
Getting Up was a dope game...
word
No, it sucked.
Bauhaus*
Come on, the Bauhaus school is one of the most important schools of the 20st century and you spell it wrong...
No Bauhaus equals no modern architecture.
(Sigh)
Hardly, due.
You have Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright to thank for modern architecture.
Gropius and his followers built on it, sure, but the Bauhaus school of design was birthed from a collection of Wright designs that were published in Europe long before the Bauhaus style was established.
True, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan were the grandaddy's of modern architecture, but I believe that Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, along with the Bauhaus school, made it accessible to the public.
I also think that they played a more significant role on design as a whole, in all its aspects.
Modern Architecture as it is known today set forth from the "International Style" coined in CIAM X.
This architecture was derived from multiple places, one, as has been said was Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan.
The other was the De Stijl of Theo Van Doesberg, Gerrit Reitveld, and others who were involved in the Cubist Movement, which was influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement and so on and so forth. For further information, see S.Gideon, Space Time & Architecture.
Another cool idea for an IR camera, really neat.
And by the way it's Bauhaus and not Bauhas.
Jet Grint(Set) Radio anyone? I'm up for it *prays*
Don't travel by air with that thing--Can you imagine the expression on the face of the x-ray tech in the TSA line at the airport?
Instant cavity search.
'Rather than a specially designed can, though, it would seem easier to make a Wiispray ‘caddy’ into which the Wiimote could slot. Some clever thinking could link the nozzle button to one of the Wiimote’s controls via mechanical rather than electrical means; price would also be reduced."
Why would I want to cram the WiiMote into a can, and have some inaccurate mechanical way of pushing the button...
Why not make a Spray Can that plug into the WiiMote like the Nunchuck or Classic Controller?
That would make more sense to me. The last thing we need is another plastic attachment for our WiiMote.
If this idea was ever commercialized, then yes, that's likely how it would be done. However this was a student project that will likely not even interface with the Wii itself and now as much or as little tweaking as the modder wants to do can more easily be done.
metropolitan areas tend to have problems with graffiti on buildings. What if a smart board based system in cities could implement with this to prevent vandalism on buildings
Ya, but the smart boards would get stollen.
it is a great idea though... that would be fun.
Can't say if it's cool or not, but definitely innovative and creative.
(didn't mean for that to rhyme)
WiiFitti?
FACK
i so thought of this like 1000 years ago when i saw this
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76
Wow, this is exactly the same concept that one guy in my industrial design studio class came up with. He'd flip once he found out someone actually took from concept to working format
How accurate is that thing. Doubt it. Always like it. Just do the real thing.