Wallstreet Journal looks at Wiimote hacks

 

Getting the Wiimote to do things other than interact with video games on the Wii is pretty common news to us gamers by now. Why, just the other day we reported on this Wiimote door opener, and before that, we informed you folks about this project that allowed for a robotic arm to controlled by the Wiimote.

While wiimote hacking is common to us, it’s quite interesting how the culture outside of gaming looks at this movement to find other uses for Nintendo‘s cute white controller. Wall Street Journal is interested as well. The author of the Wall Street Journal report, Jamin Brophy Warren, looks at how many different folks, from Italian DJs to TiVO aficionados use the Wiimote to sequence music tracks, all the way to directing Roomba robot vacuum cleaners.

The report not only looks at the actual project and hacks, but also the people responsible for it. It even has an interesting bit from Nintendo that apparently shows that it discourages this popular movement of finding alternative uses for the controller – despite the obvious popularity that Wiimote hacks bring to Nintendo. Anka Dolecki, Nintendo spokeswoman says, “The Wii Remote was created to play on the Wii system only.”

For a nice refreshing outsider look at something commonplace to us already, feel free to check out the report via our Read link below.

 

Getting the Wiimote to do things other than interact with video games on the Wii is pretty common news to us gamers by now. Why, just the other day we reported on this Wiimote door opener, and before that, we informed you folks about this project that allowed for a robotic arm to controlled by the Wiimote.

While wiimote hacking is common to us, it’s quite interesting how the culture outside of gaming looks at this movement to find other uses for Nintendo‘s cute white controller. Wall Street Journal is interested as well. The author of the Wall Street Journal report, Jamin Brophy Warren, looks at how many different folks, from Italian DJs to TiVO aficionados use the Wiimote to sequence music tracks, all the way to directing Roomba robot vacuum cleaners.

The report not only looks at the actual project and hacks, but also the people responsible for it. It even has an interesting bit from Nintendo that apparently shows that it discourages this popular movement of finding alternative uses for the controller – despite the obvious popularity that Wiimote hacks bring to Nintendo. Anka Dolecki, Nintendo spokeswoman says, “The Wii Remote was created to play on the Wii system only.”

For a nice refreshing outsider look at something commonplace to us already, feel free to check out the report via our Read link below.