So, I found on the internet on how to use your Wii remote to do various things on your computer. One method you could do is use a “sensor bar” (actually an IR source) to use the Wiimote as a mouse. I got it to work successfully by using two candles. That’s right, candles. It works, I swear. I also got the Wiimote to navigate through Google Earth by shear Wiimote commands alone. The most interesting one, though, is using the Wiimote as a remote to control Winamp globally. That means if the computer is doing something else that puts Winamp in the background, it will still control it. That’s pretty badass to me.
So, for you tech heads out there who haven’t heard of this, the Wiimote, it turns out uses Bluetooth to communicate with the Wii. Actually, it uses the IR source from the sensor bar, combines it with the gyros and accelerometers inside the Wiimote and transmits all that to the Wii via Bluetooth to give the console a very accurate sense of where the remote is pointing on screen and how it’s 3D position. So, since the Wiimote uses Bluetooth, some crafty bugger out there figured out that a Bluetooth-equipped computer could communicate with the remote under the right circumstances. Turns out that I have those right circumstances. :D So, I’ve been messing around with the various functionalities I can do with the Wiimote. The computer uses a program called GlovePIE to tell the Wiimote what to do. Now, you need to get scripts for the program so the program knows what to tell the Wiimote to do. There are many scripts out there for the Wiimote, but I would imagine a lot of you wouldn’t really ever have the need for it. I just think it’s novel, though I probably won’t be using it that much either. You never know, though, there might be some super cool script written that would make my life on a computer easier. I doubt it, but hey, we all can dream.
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