Just Uber » gaming http://www.justuber.com/blog Dancing with Nerds Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Using the Wiimote & Wii Balance Board in Ubuntu http://www.justuber.com/blog/2009/06/28/using-the-wiimote-wii-balance-board-in-ubuntu/ http://www.justuber.com/blog/2009/06/28/using-the-wiimote-wii-balance-board-in-ubuntu/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:37:33 +0000 Chris http://www.justuber.com/blog/?p=158 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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The Source engine powers many of Valve’s top titles including Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.

Linux support for Source is likely to increase the take up of Linux based operating systems amongst Joe Public. Lack of support for modern games is often cited as a reason for not moving from Windows.

Lets hope that the rumours are true, and that Valve are the first of many games developers to go down this route.

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