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 | How to Play Counter Strike, CoD, any PC Game with a WiiMote
This tutorial will walk you through how you how to connect your wiimote to your PC to play games like Counter Strike, Call of Duty, and more. We've covered a brief tutorial in the past about how to connect a wiimote to your PC which you can... |
 | Airsoft Gun Controlled via WiiMote
By interpreting data from a wiimote accelerometer, this robotic airsoft gun makes adjustments based upon wiimote movements. Fully equipt with a webcam, it can be controlled remotely as well. The author has plenty more info and videos... |
 | Physical Computing with MIT's Siftables
Siftables is the latest example of a Tangible User Interface (TUI), an emerging technology that aims to use physical objects as interface for computing needs. Siftables, however, differ from traditional models with the addition of a sensor... |
 | How to: Cheap Accelerometer with the Wii Nunchuck
As you're probably well aware, the wiimote and nunchuck have a vast array of sensors built into them. Instead of buying pre-assembled breakout board for $35, or attempting to solder a tiny surface mount accelerometer, learn to exploit the features... |
 | How to: Graphically Visualize Data in Real Time
Although the title of this post may sound a bit advanced or intimidating, fear not grasshopper, data visualization is actually quite simple. Using an outstanding program called Processing, we can read data through our computer's serial port and... |
 | Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web
Since we love the ever-popular Arduino, we've scoured the vast reaches of the interweb and unearthed the best Arduino projects just for you. The Arduino is an open source programming platform which allows you to easily control electronics with a... |
| | Easily Connect a Wiimote to your PC Use a bluetooth adapter and some free software to read data from your wiimote's accelerometer and sensors. There are fantastic connectivity tutorials here and here using software is avaliable for Mac, PC, and Linux. Why would you want... |
 | Wii Drum Set using the Wiimote and WiiFit
Using the WiiFit as a foot pedal to control bass and the Wiimote's accelerometer and sensors as drumsticks, this modder built his own simulated drum set. Different gestures and joystick buttons result in various drum sounds. The... |
 | Dirt Simple POV LED Display
In case you don't know, POV (persistence of vision) is the blur you see when you wave an object quickly. In this case, by flashing LEDs at certain times while an object is waved, a message appears in the air. Easily build your own... |
 | Modular Shape Shifting Robots that Rebuild Themselves
These new shape shifting robots from the University of Pennsylvania are something straight out of a SciFi movie. The robot is an awesome piece of engineering featuring three modular sections that, when separated, attract each other with a beacon,... |
