Wiimote + Ubuntu + Python + QT = A lot of fun

I found a pretty funny Video on Youtube.com. It is about a guy that uses a Wiimote to control a program to do something called headtracking.
Take look at it here ->




Yesterday evening I found out how to connect my Wiimote to my pc.
You only need 2 candles (emitting infrared light for the wiimote) a bluetooth-dongle (to connect the wiimote to the pc) and a tool called wminput (to catch the signals from the wiimote)
Then I wrote a little programm (using Python and QT) to demonstrate that it is working. The programm is nothing more than a drag&drop test with some basic shapes.
Take a look at it here - >



Ok I am very far away of what this other guy did, but he probably worked a bit longer than me (it took me just two hours to do this.)
Of course I will go on try what I am able todo with the wiimote and of course you will be able to read about it here.

If you want to try it yourself, just follow this tutorial to connect the wiimote to ubuntu (feisty fawn) ->http://dingsblog.de/wordpress/index.php/2007/10/31/ubuntu-mit-wiimote/
And then use my python script to do what I did.

myWiimoteDemo.py

hf gl salendron