Control Your Computer With A Wii Remote

Probably the hardest thing to find this past holiday season was a Nintendo Wii, believe me I looked. Even now that the holidays are over it’s still really hard to get your hands on one. With all of the crazy fanaticism over the Wii and it’s Wiimote game play why not build your own? Okay so your not actually going to be build a Wii per-say, but you can easily build a system to take advantage of the Wiimote and all it’s cool functions like waving it around like your trying to spray paint something.

This crafty hacker put together a simple plan to build his own Wii sensor and interface it with a PC so that he could play PC games using the Wiimote. Best of all you can do all of this for about $50.

With a simple piece of hardware you put together (they have very detailed intructions on their site) and some custom software that’s free to download to interface your Wiimote to your PC you’ll be ready to take you Wii-like experience on the road (if you have a laptop that is). They have even created a bunch of games that specifically take advantage of the Wiimote.

Now if I can only convince my wife that it’s the same!

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