Update:  Wow!  In just over a week I reached Survey Monkey's limit of 100 responses for the survey.  I'll be posting results soon.  Thanks to everyone who took the time to give me their feedback!

For those of you that use my Managed Wiimote Library (and if you're not, why aren't you?), I've put together a very short, 3 question survey to gather some opinions on how to move forward with upcoming releases.  Please take the 30 seconds to click responses to the 3 multiple choice questions and let me know how you'd like to see the library evolve.  Thanks!

I have updated the Managed Wiimote Library on CodePlex to version 1.2.1 by adding support for IR3 and IR4.  Johnny Chung Lee added these to an older version of my library, and I've received a ton of questions about it, so the two additional IR sources are now officially supported.

I have plenty more in the pipeline, so expect a much bigger release soon.

In the past couple of weeks, several very interesting projects using my Managed Library for Nintendo's Wiimote have appeared.

First off, Johnny Chung Lee has created some amazing and unique user interface demos with the library which can be found at his site.  Here are a few videos showing off what he's done:

Cynergy Labs has used the library in conjunction with WPF and some of Johnny's ideas to create a Minority Report-style interface with some Microsoft Surface-style effects:

Incredible stuff.  I'd also like to toot my own horn and state that, at the time of this writing, my Wiimote library is the #1 most downloaded project at CodePlex.  I wish I could take credit for that, but I'm certain these talented folks and their amazing work with the library are the reason for that.

As always, if anyone out there is using the library, please contact me so I can add you to the master list.

I finished this a bit later than I wanted to, but a brand new version of my Light Sequencer application and article is now available at Coding4Fun.  You may recall my previous article on creating a musical light show for the holidays.  If not, here's the video showing the output:

New Features for 2.0

• MIDI support
  • Load a MIDI file and a sequence will be automatically created based on the data contained in the file.  You can automatically create your own show with barely any effort at all!
• Playlists
  • Load up several sequences and have them play in order to create a multi-song show!
• More accurate timing
  • The timing algorithm used in the last version was very imprecise...it worked, but it wasn't perfect.  The new version uses a method which gives millisecond precision timing
• Cut/Copy/Paste
  • One can now cut/copy/paste cells on the grid...makes it easy to repeat chunks of sequences without having to tap out the rhythm by hand over and over again
• Edit existing sequences
  • After loading a sequence created by someone else (or yourself), you can now re-assign Phidget boards, serial numbers, output ports, etc. to get them to run on your setup.

Note that any sequences created with the old version will continue to play just fine, but editing them could be troublesome due to the new timing method.

Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you.  Hopefully version 3 won't take as long as this one did...

I'm attempting to track down a very strange Windows Vista registry permissions issue that hit me on two machines, that I've found mentioned in random various forum posts across the Internet, that has no known cause or solution, and which I cannot seem to reproduce in a VM though I've seen it happen on 2 machines across 4 Vista installs.  I'm hoping everyone that happens to read this post will take a few minutes to check the following and contact me directly or leave a comment with a way to communicate back to you.  Here's what to do:

1. Run regedit.exe, everybody's favorite Registry Editor.
2. At the root node of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, right-click and select Permissions from the context menu.
3. Report what you see.  The first image is correct.  The second image is the problem scenario.