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A Wiimote to Control your Mac

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 21/05/2007 08:48:24 CEST - Category: Peripheral
A report from Pascal.
Thanks to my son and its Nintendo Wii, I discovered the Wii remote control and tried to use it to be connected to my Mac. When I started looking around, I found a Darwin project:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183966&package_id=214095
This utility lets you:
1) recover all information from the Wiimote giving you the possibilities to develop scripts and applications for your Mac.
2) emulate a mouse thanks to the IR pointer.
For using the IR pointer, one needs an IR bar as the one below for US$20:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8267396&st=wii&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1170290206406
Once plugged and configured it works fine. I did not try to use it with Front Row as it can be a solution for those not willing to immediately invest in a new Mac or purchase an Apple IR remote control.
The driver available in version 0.5 is really working fine and already available in Universal Binaries.
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