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Open Source Wii Software

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Minutes after I sliced my finger on the Wii box, I decided to download an Open Source program for Mac OS X. The DarwiinRemote is an application for Mac OS X v10.4 which allows Wii Remote to fully control applications on a personal computer. Essentially, you connect your WiiMote via Bluetooth to any Mac running OS X. The software includes a desktop application and a developers’ framework, allowing for additional functionality. To use the software, the computer must have Bluetooth enabled.

DarwiinRemote employs most of the features of the Wii Remote. All three accelerometers feed information to the computer. All of the buttons on the Wii Remote, including the Nunchuk attachment, can be used, but the control stick is not supported. The rumble features and LEDs are fully programmable. In addition, DarwiinRemote can accept the infrared signals from the Wii Sensor Bar. However, to use this feature, the bar must be plugged into a powered socket on Wii.

If you know of other cool free things for the Wii, please let me know! You can leave me a follow-up comment to this video, or shoot an email to me at chris@pirillo.com.

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erukjent2

February 26th, 2008
at 3:37pm

realy cool chris =)

tidusquall10x

February 26th, 2008
at 3:42pm

Chris is the best!

GOOOFYproductions

February 26th, 2008
at 4:00pm

wii ya later man

thunderhead27

February 26th, 2008
at 7:51pm

there is a hack you can do, its a drum set. its the same thing but you can play music, but i forgot is name

kevaughanshiu

February 26th, 2008
at 8:29pm

Darn, All i need now is a Blue Tooth wireless reciever connector thingy for my PC

zanokmanza

February 27th, 2008
at 4:33am

i use a scripting program for windows called glovepie to emulate key strokes when using the wiimote

THEMIZKID

February 27th, 2008
at 4:52am

too bad the software isn’t for a good operating system like windows.

bootmatrix

February 27th, 2008
at 5:15am

Wow Chris thats really cool. I love any Wii Hacks and Software.

summerwizz

February 27th, 2008
at 5:56am

you no chis says that the stream is only at one place alone (his site) hes wrong if you go to ustream . com his stream is on there because strwam is the stream hoster