Accessing the Wii remote IR camera via I2C using Arduino (skipping Bluetooth!)

08Jun08

The IR camera on the Wii remote can be easily accessed using the Bluetooth connection. However, this can be a pain for embedded applications where you don’t want to rely on a “permanent” Bluetooth connection or resort to using a computer with Bluetooth.
The alternative is to connect directly to the camera using I2C. This is [...]

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Serial I/O in Cocoa

08May08

For those of you who are interested in building Cocoa apps that use Serial I/O (for example, to log data from an Arduino) here is the relevant reference from Apple:

SerialPortSample

and here is an implementation under BSD license that could easily be adapted to your own projects from Harmless Cocoa:

AMSerialPort

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