Wiimote butterflies on the PC via XNA

Posted Apr 27, 2007 at 9:30PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Bluetooth, MSDN, Toshiba, Wiimote, Windows Vista, XNA

Here's a nice little idea which demonstrated how XNA development tools can work in conjunction with a Wiimote to create cute results in a PC. The Wiimote is able to control a flock of graphical butterflies by getting Windows Vista to talk with the controller.

M.B. Burke of MSDN says it's fairly simple on the programming part. What held him up for a while was the fact that the Windows Vista stack doesn't recognize the Wiimote signal. He had to look for four days for one that has a stack that's compatible and he found that in Toshiba. With a EPoX BT-DG05A Bluetooth USB Dongle, all was set.

Sadly, though, the Wiimote-controlled butterfly application doesn't work if you try to run it on the Xbox 360. Still, the idea is a nice demonstration of possibilities. And if we know tech-heads like we do, it's a given that they'll come up with a really crazy brew one of these days. To know how exactly everything was done, follow the read URL.

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