We are working on documenting and adding support for the Wiimote on Bluetooth-enabled computers. Here’s how it’s turning out so far. Stay tuned for pointing, Mii data (already working!), and much, much more!
November 2006
Monthly Archive
Wed 29 Nov 2006
Wed 29 Nov 2006
check it out on Google Maps
Mon 27 Nov 2006
PSP Installer Deluxe (PSPID) v1.1 is released.
Posted by hevnsnt under Hacking , Hardware , News , SoftwareNo Comments
from PSP-Hq.Com
One month after the first released, DJB has done it again releasing PSP Installer Deluxe v1.1.
The main update in this version is the inclusion of Dark_AleX’s 2.71 SE-C Custom Firmware, along with newer Firmware Hacking tools for the 2.71 SE.
Mon 27 Nov 2006
from Streamick.com
Streamick.com is a free web TV aggregator with more then 300 real TV channels to choose from. NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users, completely for free..
Thu 23 Nov 2006
from PC World
It’s big, it’s ambitious, and it’s (finally) here. We give you the bottom line on what Vista does better than XP, where it needs improvement–and how to perform the upgrade, step-by-step.
Thu 23 Nov 2006
from Xbox-Scene.com
As expected the Xbox360 won Amazon’s Customer Vote. Thursday 11am PST there will be 1000 Xbox360 Core system available for just 100 USD (instead of 299 USD). Get your browsers ready – it’s probably gonna sell out in a matter of seconds:
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Each week’s winner goes on sale Thursdays at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. Buying will close when available quantities have sold out. Be online, ready and waiting on Amazon.com, the second buying goes live. If you don’t have an Amazon.com account already, get one now. We predict that these deals will sell out rapidly.
You won’t buy products from Amazon Customers Vote the way you’d ordinarily buy at Amazon.com. We’ve implemented a special series of screens to ensure we only take as many orders as we can fulfill, and to ensure that each customer buys only one item. You’ll be asked to verify your identity, and issued one of a limited number of claim codes that allow you to purchase at the special discounted price.
You must buy via the Amazon Customers Vote page, not the product detail page, in order to buy one of the set-aside items; otherwise, you will not pass through the series of screens in which we issue the claim code, and you will not receive the discount.
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More details on how to order item: amazon.com
100USD Xbox360 Core will be available here
Thu 23 Nov 2006
from doctabu
From the moment I picked up my Nintendo Wii last Sunday morning, I’ve been very curious about the design and functionality of the Wiimote and its sensor bar. Of course, I’m not the only one. Through a few links on sites like digg, it has come to other people’s attention that the Wii sensor bar both only consists of IR LEDs and also sends no signal between the Wii and the bar… only power.
This had me thinking. It my apartment in Boston, I have a projector, but I feared hooking my Wii up to it because of the length I’d need to have in the cable to put the bar right under the image. Then, I thought, maybe I can make one.
So, I did.
With just a perf board, some wires, a bit of soldering, 4 AA batteries, and 4 IR LEDs, I was able to make this:
Wed 22 Nov 2006
from [NFG Games + GameSX]
Nintendo Wii Multi AV Pinout
The full spec of the Wii connector is not yet known, but so far we have the Composite (AV) and Component pinouts, thanks to forum members RGB32E and dustinh2k. The image below was made by RGB32E, modified by NFG to reflect numbering by dustinh2k.
| Pin | Signal | Pin | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Left | 2 | Right |
| 3 | Video | 4 | +5VDC |
| 5 | Ground | 6 | Ground |
| 7 | Y | 8 | Mode |
| 9 | Pb | 10 | Mode |
| 11 | Pr | 12 | Ground |
| 13 | +12VDC | 14 | |
| 15 | 16 |
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MODE pins 8 & 10 should be shorted (connected to each other) to enable progressive (480p) mode.
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See this forum thread for pics and discussion.
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Thanks to RGB32E, dustinh2k and acem77 for their work sorting this out.
Wed 22 Nov 2006
from YouTube
After a little detective work done by my bros, I explain exactly what the Wii’s “sensor” bar is and why you don’t necessarily need one.
Mon 20 Nov 2006
Wii sensor bar doesn’t send any signal to the Console
Posted by hevnsnt under Hardware , NewsNo Comments
from Viva Nintendo
Yesterday we got the chance to get two wii next to each other. We were playing with one while updating the other but we only got one TV so we had to keep switch the video cables from one Wii to the other to keep tracking of the update progress. In this plug and unplug we realize that we weren’t switching the sensor bar: there was just one sensor bar out, always connected to the same Wii, but both consoles were able to receive the signal from each wiimotes.
This leads me to believe that the sensor bar doesn’t send any signal to the Wii, it just got the power from the console and send a pace signal to be picked by the wiimote and not the other way around, so most of the job is done by the wiimote.
VelvetHammer make a good point, the sensor bar is not the receiver the wiimote is. This way the batteries from the wiimotes don’t keep draining. The wiimote is the actual receiver.