The Wii controller has been used for a good bit of things lately, from breaking $4,000.00 television setups, to even playing a few games. It is no secret that most people love the Wii, and they find it hard to part with it throughout their day. One person got so attached they decided that their second addiction, RC Cars, could use their Wii also, Or at least the Wii controller.

The creator of this Wii RC remote, got so tired of playing excite truck on the screen, they decided to take it off the screen and into their front yard. How you may ask? Through the use of the Wiimote’s sensory parts.

With the Wii controller you are able to setup a RC Car to read its controls and ultimately steer and navigate through the use of the Wiimote.

How difficult is it? Well, the Wii RC car involves

It seems like the Wiimote relays a bluetooth signal to your laptop, travels through your laptop to the serial port, which then relays instructions to your Wiimote. It has to be harder than it sounds.

So why don’t you dissect your Wiimote, get hacking and take a look at the video below to see what may be install for your if you succeed.

Via [engadget]

Do you have Bluetooth on your Mac? If so, you can use the open sourced software DarwiinRemote to make a Wiimote control your applications like a mouse.

The DarwiinRemote software will sync up the Wiimote and your Mac, read data to and from your Wiimote, and translate it into mouse movements on the computer. The software will also monitor the intensity of acceleration, button movements, sensor bar, LEDs with the help of an interface display graph.

What a good idea, could this usher in an age of computer peripherals that won’t require a desk?

Product download and notes [DarwiinRemote]

On December 22, 2006, Nintendo and Opera will make a trial version of the Opera browser available to Wii owners. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can download a free trial Opera browser to activate the Internet Channel of the Wii Menu and begin surfing the Web.

The final version of the Opera browser will be available at the end of March 2007, and will be free for all Wii owners to download through the end of June 2007. After June, users who haven’t already downloaded the Opera browser can go to the Wii Shop Channel to download it for 500 Wii Points.

Press Release [Nintendo]

It has been reported that Nintendo will “voluntarily exchange” an estimated 3.2 million straps for the Wii game console. This is after a barrage of complains from gamers complaining on how easily it snaps off the game console remote (dumbed the Wiimote). Reports have been of damaged televisions, windows and even minor injuries.

Nintendo has also announced a recall on about 200,000 adapters for its DS and DS Lite handheld game machines in Japan due to current overheating that may cause burns.

There have been several innovative unofficial solutions to fix the faulty Wii control straps but Karunga from Infinitipower tops the lot. It may very well be an ingenious (yet cheap) solution.

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