How+it+Works



A good [|article] from the New York Times.

Check out SparkFun Electronic's Wiimote autopsy here to see the guts of the device.

How the [|Wii works] from [|www.howstuffworks.com].

The Wiimote has, underneath the snow white plastic exterior, a gyrometer and an accelerometer. The gyrometer measures the tilt of the Wiimote while the accelerometer measures the motion. The information that the controller has is sent to the television using infrared //and// Bluetooth technology. - This came from an IGN.com article, discussing the best of E3 2006. (IGN stands for "Imagine Games Network")

The official [|Nintendo Wii website] has more information on the subject of the Wiimote and the Nunchuck controllers.