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Categories: Insane, PC Connect, Wii Console Hack, Wii Info, Wiimote Hack.
Virtual Hosting has put together a HUGE list of 100 things you can do with the Wii. See the first 10 below, read the full article for the remaining 90 uses.
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Categories: Insane, Wiimote Hack.
If you are looking for a more realistic Wiimote Gun, why not build it out of solid steel? That is exactly what Flame500 has done.
“Ever since I heard about the wiimote’s camera based aiming system I thought “wow that would make an epic pistol” and since it came out I had not seen anything that looked like it could still stand up to the abuse of playing and also looked like a convincing pistol. I believe anyone could build this mod given some decent tools and softer/thinner aluminum. The aluminum I had wasn’t really ideal as it was made to be machined and thus was extremely hard. This made cutting it on my cheap as hell bandsaw rather tedious. I started with a template of a colt .45 and traced it out on one of my slabs of 1/2inch aluminum.
After about an hour of cutting I had this.”
Categories: Funny, Insane, Video.
Wow, I have seen lots of talented dogs, but this is the first one I have seen who plays the Wii.
Videos after the jump
Categories: Insane, PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Wow, this is a cool use of the Wiimote! Leave it to Johnny Lee to keep dreaming up cool uses for it.
Video after the jump.
“Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University.”
Categories: Insane, PC Connect, Video, Wiimote Hack.
The guys over at Cynergy Labs built this system in about 8 days! It lets the user use their fingers to move items around.
Video after the jump.
“Project Maestro was produced by cynergy.labs, the R&D arm of Cynergy, a leading Rich Internet Applications design and development firm. cynergy.labs funds and sponsors Cynergy developers in building out cutting edge technologies that are relevant to the community and Cynergy’s customers.
Maestro brings together Microsoft WPF, third party community libraries and custom built IR gloves to demonstrate next generation human to computer interfaces.”
Categories: Insane, Video, Wiimote Hack.
Why spend thousands on an interactive whiteboard when you can make your own using a wiimote?
Video after the jump.
“Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, multiple pens can be used.
Multitouch: The multitouch demos are custom C# DirectX programs. You may download the source code, but this is provided for developers without support or documentation. The code is built on top of this Wiimote library. Unfortunately, multi-touch capable applications are currently extremely rare. Hopefully, that will change as more developers explore its potential.”
Categories: Insane.
Play your Wii with no power plugs around.
“Tom’s Hardware Guide recently built a mobile Wii station, complete with an HD monitor, that’s powered in part by a solar energy (check out the Tom’s Workshop video of the project). It’s a simple invention on many levels. For one, it didn’t cost much at all to find a battery, power converter and appropriately-sized solar power panel. And the station itself is just wood with a couple of wheels and a coat of blue paint slapped on. For this purposes of this experiment, we decided to keep the costs low and create a repeatable formula in case anyone else wanted to try something similar. THG video editor Ben Meyer and lab manager Shelton Rohmanyi procured the parts, while Shelton and THG camera man Max Wilson put the actual station together. I left for Wondercon and GDC and by the time I got back a week later, the entire thing was completed. Here are the various parts with their respective prices (not including taxes or shipping fees):”
Categories: Insane, Wii Console Hack.
The final assembly of the Wii laptop.
More pictures after the jump.
“Ok, we’re back again for the thrilling conclusion of how-to make your own Wii laptop! In today’s final installment we’ll cut the case for the laptop, install all the parts, attach the screen and sound amplifier, and then connect everything together. Hopefully the extra detail [which, Ben tells us, is far beyond what he usually provides on his own site. -Ed.] will give you a good insight into how these devices are created and provide inspiration for your own personal hacks.”
Categories: Insane.
Is there going to be more Wii items available in the near future? Possibilities are quite good that there might be…
“According to rumors, Nintendo are planning to release the Nintendo Wii Phone. The company may see it as an opportunity to compete with Apple iPhone and Microsoft Zune Phone. Stay tuned for more updates!
We never would’ve thought Nintendo was looking to the mobile phone industry with any kind of plans for branching out, but according to the linked patent, which was filed in November 2001 and issued in June 2006, they were (and could still be). The patent, which reads as “Electronic apparatus having game and telephone functions,” doesn’t really paint a picture. Luckily though, we yanked some screens from Engadget, so check them out after the post break.”
Categories: Insane, Wiimote Hack.
This mod might make the wiimote easier to hang onto.
“While a few may be modding their Wii controllers to a tennis racket or a golf club, now, even the Wiimote can be used as a gun! Specific details on how the controller was modded isn’t known, but what seems to be for sure was that the B key was wired in with the trigger so that the Wiimote gun will actually be useful in a shooting game with the Wii.
