GlovePIE will be a useful program for you if you have one of the following devices:
Neurosky ThinkGear, Wild Divine Lightstones, Emotiv Epoc, Wiimotes (Wii Remotes), Wii Fit Balance Boards, Playstation 3 controllers (SIXAXIS, Dual Shock 3), Spaceball, Novint Falcon, eMagin Z800, Essential Reality P5 Virtual Reality Glove, 5DT Data Glove, Flock of Birds tracker, Polhemus trackers…
PIE does not refer to that great tasting sweet, but the initials for “Programmable Input Emulator“.
This all means that this progam can be used for programming a device to control your PC. For example, we can write a small script for playing a PC game through a Wiimote connected using bluetooth, or using its pointer as mouse (we need a infrared sensor but, I don’t know why, my pointer works well without anything else).
The program is very easy to use. It contains many scripts by default, but it’s easy to create new ones by yourself. Making a script doesn’t take much time, because it’s based on assignations of the remote device with the keyboard keys.
We will have different options according to the device, of course. I only tried the program with a Wiimote, and it works properly, it even recognize some of its accesories.
- A script in GlovePIE
Here we have a screenshot of the program, showing a Wiimote test script. Scripts syntax is very simple, I think you’ll need no tutorial to learn to program them.
As you can see, it’s only identifying the keyboards values (Key.*) with the device values (in this case, Wiimote.*).
If we write Key.Space = Wiimote.A, pressing Wiimote’s A button will be the same as pressing the Spacebar in the keyboard. But we also can do other things, such as switching on and off the LEDs, make it shake, etc. Yes, it’s very easy and you can learn it simply by looking at other scripts included.
Goodbye, we finally can control the computer lying in bed! 
