Wii Remotes...

Has anyone else tried using DarwiinRemote? It's a free program that lets you connect the motion sensing remotes for the nintendo Wii to your Mac.

It seems pretty cool but... I have no idea how to connect the sensor bar from my Wii. So I may end up trying candles instead... but that seems very unsafe... and I'm not so sure I want candles around my relatively new iMac.

Here's a link to where you can get DarwiinRemote.

And here's the link to the IGN video where I found you can just use candles instead of a sensor bar.

Although I suppose I could use this other sensor bar that is battery powered and so I don't have to plug it in:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/750/750908p1.html

but that costs money and I'm not so sure it's actually worth it.

I think I'm going to try playing WarCraft III using a wiimote... once I find a safe, cheap, convenient, IR source...

 

I finally lived my dream!

Playing an RTS made by Blizzard... using the Wiimote!

Here's a video of clips spliced together. Most of it is in fastforward to compress the 30 minutes of footage I had into the 10 minutes allowed by YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VExWWKJjo

For those interested...
I used two different iRobot Virtual Walls instead of a sensor bar (all I need is IR lights... these worked just fine,) because ours has been permanently attached to the TV. Then I used DarwiinRemote (a free program for Mac only, google it if you're interested... I downloaded it from MacUpdate.) You have to have bluetooth on your computer for the Wiimote to connect.

After I collected all that stuff, I just set the virtual walls to either side of the "foot" of my computer and turned them on. Then I launched DarwiinRemote, told it to search for Wiimotes, pressed 1 and 2 on the Wiimote, and I modified the preferences in DarwiinRemote so the buttons would be mapped to better handle WarCraft III. Then I turned off the accelerators on the Wiimote (no reason to waste power with that...), and turned on the IR motion tracking. I tweaked with the sensitivity a bit and then finally launched WarCraft III from the dock. I played a practice match against the computer (clips from that are the first minute of the YouTube video... I was the red orc.) Then I went onto battle.net, made a new account "UsingWiimote" (didn't want to mess up my normal account records,) and I played a 4v4. I ended up losing but the experience was fun anyways.

So, anyone else going to try something like this?