Archive for February, 2009

Playing PC games with a Wiimote

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

I’ve found out recently that it is possible to use a Wiimote to play PC games, so I thought I would share.
What you’ll need
A Wiimote
A Bluetooth Enabled PC (or Bluetooth Dongle)
BlueSoleil bluetooth software (this method doesn’t appear to work for me with Microsoft’s own Bluetooth Stack)
GlovePie  
Connecting the Wiimote
Make sure your  Bluetooth is turned on.
There should be a [...]

Pong to Kong

Friday, February 20th, 2009

 During this weeks school half-term holidays the boy, my big sister and I visited the Pong To Kong exhibition at Dorman Museum. This exhibition traces the origins of electronic games in 1972 up to the present day.  (The title would suggest it goes from Pong (1972) to Donkey Kong (1981) but I guess they couldn’t find  a modern [...]

Blogs, Twitter and SceneSat.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

The last two weeks and a bit haven’t been as productive as Janurary. My new yeats self improvement quest has been stuttering a little, however I think I’m still moving forward and I’m not going to give up. 
I have been working on some blog postings, I’ve got seventeen other blog posts in draft at the moment, [...]

January’s New Years Resolutions Update

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

It’s been a difficult month for my new years resolutions, as January always is. Nevertheless I’m focusing on the positive and I believe I have been some progress towards me goals in January,
For Get In Shape I’ve restarted hundredpushups.com but I’ve been struggling to get past week 3, I’ve Continue training for Karate three days a week (I missed one [...]