Using the Wiimote & Wii Balance Board in Ubuntu
Matt Cutts, head of webspam at Google, has written a couple of very interesting articles describing how to hook up Wii peripherals to an Ubuntu Pc over bluetooth.
The first article describes how to hook Ubuntu up to a Wiimote, followed by another showing how to build a working weight sensor and real time display with Ubuntu, a Wii Balance Board and a couple of hundred lines of Python.
Could this herald a new era of Wii type games on Ubuntu?
I hope so!
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June 29th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I used a tutorial a while back to link my wiimote up. We now use it as a remote for boxee (on Ubuntu of course! ). I then followed up with using my wii guitar heroes guitars on Frets on Fire
June 29th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Awesome! I must admit I had wondered about using the Wiimote as a remote control for a home media setup. I haven’t got a Wii though so I might have a look at eBay for peripherals.